Poems of Charlotte Smith

Name: Poems of Charlotte Smith
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ISBN: 9780195083583

ISBN-10: 019508358X

ISBN-13: 9780195083583

Edition: 1993

Authors: Charlotte Smith, Stuart Curran

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Charlotte Smith's life was the stuff of romantic anguish; upon marriage she felt exiled in "personal slavery", and began publishing poems to earn money while in debtor's prison with her extravagant husband. They subsequently resided in France and lived on subscriptions to her poems and translation work, but she eventually left her husband, "fearing my life was not safe", and began publishing novels annually in order to provide for her children. Smith was the first English poet whom, in retrospect, we could call Romantic, and was particularly influential on Wordsworth's style and ideas. Her poetry, beginning with the first edition of Elegaic Sonnets in 1784, was well received by her…

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List price: $70.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/9/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 8.27" wide x 5.51" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English