Charlotte Turner Smith (1749 – 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 En...
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001 – Sonnet I
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002 – Sonnet II. Written at the close of Spring
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003 – Sonnet III. To a Nightingale
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004 – Sonnet IV. To the Moon
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005 – Sonnet V. To the South Downs
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006 – Sonnet VI. To Hope
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007 – Sonnet VII. On the Departure of the Nightingale
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008 – Sonnet VIII. To Spring
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009 – Sonnet IX
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010 – Sonnet X. To Mrs. G.
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011 – Sonnet XI. To Sleep
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012 – Sonnet XII. Written on the Sea Shore
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013 – Sonnet XIII. From Petrarch
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014 – Sonnet XIV. From Petrarch
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015 – Sonnet XV. From Petrarch
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016 – Sonnet XVI. From Petrarch
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017 – Sonnet XVII. From the Thirteenth Cantata of Metastasio
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018 – Sonnet XVIII. To the Earl of Egremont
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019 – Sonnet XIX. To Mr Hayley
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020 – Sonnet XX. To the Countess of A—-
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