Charlotte Smith

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1749–1806

George Romney

Charlotte Smith wrote Elegiac Sonnets in 1783 while she was in debtor’s prison with her husband and children. William Wordsworth identified her as an important influence on the Romantic movement. She published several longer works that celebrated the individual while deploring social injustice and the British class system.

Poems by Charlotte Smith

from Beachy Head
from The Emigrants: A Poem
Huge Vapours Brood above the Clifted Shore
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Charlotte Smith

from Beachy Head

from The Emigrants: A Poem

Huge Vapours Brood above the Clifted Shore

Oh, Hope! thou soother sweet of human woes

On the Departure of the Nightingale

Sonnet: On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic

Thirty-Eight. To Mrs ____y

To the Shade of Burns

Poetry and Feminism

British Romanticism