Audiobook: Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems
- Download Sonnet I audio
- Download Sonnet II. Written at the close of Spring audio
- Download Sonnet III. To a Nightingale audio
- Download Sonnet IV. To the Moon audio
- Download Sonnet V. To the South Downs audio
- Download Sonnet VI. To Hope audio
- Download Sonnet VII. On the Departure of the Nightingale audio
- Download Sonnet VIII. To Spring audio
- Download Sonnet IX. audio
- Download Sonnet X. To Mrs. G. audio
- Download Sonnet XI. To Sleep audio
- Download Sonnet XII. Written on the Sea Shore audio
- Download Sonnet XIII. From Petrarch audio
- Download Sonnet XIV. From Petrarch audio
- Download Sonnet XV. From Petrarch audio
- Download Sonnet XVI. From Petrarch audio
- Download Sonnet XVII. From the 13th Cantata of Metastasio audio
- Download Sonnet XVIII. To the Earl of Egremont audio
- Download Sonnet XIX. To Mr. Hayley audio
- Download Sonnet XX. To the Countess of A---- audio
- Download Sonnet XXI. Supposed to be written by Werter audio
- Download Sonnet XXII. By the same audio
- Download Sonnet XXIII. By the same audio
- Download Sonnet XXIV. By the same audio
- Download Sonnet XXV. By the same audio
- Download Sonnet XXVI. To the River Arun audio
- Download Sonnet XXVII. audio
- Download Sonnet XXVIII. To Friendship audio
- Download Sonnet XXIX. To Miss C---- audio
- Download Sonnet XXX. To the River Arun audio
- Download Sonnet XXXI. Written on Farm Wood, on the South Downs, May 1784 audio
- Download Sonnet XXXII. To Melancholy. Written on the Banks of the Arun audio
- Download Sonnet XXXIII. To the Naiad of the Arun audio
- Download Sonnet XXXIV. To a Friend audio
- Download Sonnet XXXV. To Fortitude audio
- Download Sonnet XXXVI. audio
- Download Sonnet XXXVII. Sent to the Honourable Mrs O'Neill with painted flowers audio
- Download Sonnet XXXVIII. From the Novel of Emmeline audio
- Download Sonnet XXXIX. To Night. From the same audio
- Download Sonnet XL. From the same audio
- Download Sonnet XLI. To Tranquility audio
- Download Sonnet XLII. Composed during a walk on the Downs, in November 1787 audio
- Download Sonnet XLIII. audio
- Download Sonnet XLIV. Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex audio
- Download Sonnet XLV. On leaving a part of Sussex audio
- Download Sonnet XLVI. Written at Penshurst, in Autumn 1788 audio
- Download Sonnet XLVII. To Fancy audio
- Download Sonnet XLVIII. To Mrs. **** audio
- Download Sonnet XLIX. From the Novel of Celestina audio
- Download Sonnet L. From the same audio
- Download Sonnet LI. From the same audio
- Download Sonnet LII. From the same audio
- Download Sonnet LIII. From the same audio
- Download Sonnet LIV. The Sleeping Woodman audio
- Download Sonnet LV. The Return of the Nightingale audio
- Download Sonnet LVI. The Captive escaped in the Wilds of America audio
- Download Sonnet LVII. To Dependence audio
- Download Sonnet LVIII. The Glow-worm audio
- Download Sonnet LIX. Written Sept. 1791, during a remarkable Thunder Storm audio
- Download Ode to Despair. From the Novel of Emmeline audio
- Download Elegy audio
- Download Song. From the French of Cardinal Bernis audio
- Download The Origin of Flattery audio
- Download The Peasant of the Alps audio
- Download Song audio
- Download Thirty-eight audio
- Download Verses intended to have been prefixed to the Novel of Emmeline audio
- Download Sonnet LX. To an amiable Girl audio
- Download Sonnet LXI. Supposed to have been written in America audio
- Download Sonnet LXII. Written on passing by Moon-light through a village, while the ground was covered with Snow audio
- Download Sonnet LXIII. The Gossamer audio
- Download Sonnet LXIV. Written at Bristol in the Summer of 1794 audio
- Download Sonnet LXV. To Dr Parry of Bath, with some Botanic Drawings which had been made some years audio
- Download Sonnet LXVI. Written in a tempestuous night, on the coast of Sussex audio
- Download Sonnet LXVII. On passing over a dreary tract of country, and near the ruins of a deserted chapel, during a tempest audio
- Download Sonnet LXVIII. Written at Exmouth, Mid-summer 1795 audio
- Download Sonnet LXIX. Written at the same place, on seeing a Seaman return who had been imprisoned at Rochfort audio
- Download Sonnet LXX. On being cautioned against walking on a Headland overlooking the Sea, because it was frequented by a Lunatic audio
- Download Sonnet LXXI. Written at Weymouth in Winter audio
- Download Sonnet LXXII. To the Morning Star. Written near the Sea audio
- Download Sonnet LXXIII. To a Querulous Acquaintance audio
- Download Sonnet LXXIV. The Winter Night audio
- Download Sonnet LXXV. audio
- Download Sonnet LXXVI. To a Young Man entering the world audio
- Download Sonnet LXXVII. To the Insect of the Gossamer audio
- Download Sonnet LXXVIII. Snow-drops audio
- Download Sonnet LXXIX. To the Goddess of Botany audio
- Download Sonnet LXXX. To the Invisible Moon audio
- Download Sonnet LXXXI. audio
- Download Sonnet LXXXII. To the Shade of Burns audio
- Download Sonnet LXXXIII. The Sea view audio
- Download Sonnet LXXXIV. To the Muse audio
- Download The Dead Beggar audio
- Download The Female Exile audio
- Download Occasional Address. Written for the Benefit of a distressed Player, detained at Brighthelmstone for debt, November 1792 audio
- Download Inscription on a Stone in the Church-Yard at Boreham, in Essex audio
- Download A descriptive Ode audio
- Download Verses supposed to have been written in the New Forest, in early Spring audio
- Download Song. From the French audio
- Download Apostrophe to an Old Tree audio
- Download The Forest Boy audio
- Download Ode to the Poppy. Written by a deceased Friend audio
- Download Verses written by the same Lady on seeing her two Sons at play audio
- Download Verses on the Death of the same Lady, written in September 1794 audio
- Download Fragment, descriptive of the Miseries of War audio
- Download April audio
- Download Ode to Death audio
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Charlotte Turner Smith (1749 β 1806) was an English poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet, helped establish the conventions of Gothic fiction, and wrote political novels of sensibility.
It was in 1784, in debtor's prison with her husband Benjamin, that she wrote and published her first work, Elegiac Sonnets. The work achieved instant success, allowing Charlotte to pay for their release from prison. Smith's sonnets helped initiate a revival of the form and granted an aura of respectability to her later novels.
Stuart Curran, the editor of Smith's poems, has written that Smith is "the first poet in England whom in retrospect we would call Romantic". She helped shape the "patterns of thought and conventions of style" for the period. Romantic poet William Wordsworth was the most affected by her works. He said of Smith in the 1830s that she was "a lady to whom English verse is under greater obligations than are likely to be either acknowledged or remembered". By the second half of the nineteenth century, however, Smith was largely forgotten.
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