Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems
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Charlotte Turner Smith
(5 Sterne; 3 Bewertungen)
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 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. (3 hr 4 min)
Chapters
Sonnet LXII. Written on passing by Moon-light through a village, while the grou…
1:15
Read by Cori Samuel
Sonnet LXV. To Dr Parry of Bath, with some Botanic Drawings which had been made…
1:24
Read by David Barnes
Sonnet LXVII. On passing over a dreary tract of country, and near the ruins of …
1:27
Read by David Barnes
Sonnet LXIX. Written at the same place, on seeing a Seaman return who had been …
1:24
Read by David Barnes
Sonnet LXX. On being cautioned against walking on a Headland overlooking the Se…
1:17
Read by Cori Samuel
Occasional Address. Written for the Benefit of a distressed Player, detained at…
5:15
Read by David Barnes
Bewertungen
beautiful sonnets read beautifully
Cola
(5 Sterne)
The 2 readers here do a fantastic job! These sonnets are read clearly and with rhythm, for free! Some of the best recording I've heard on Librivox and some great poetry. I wish each poem didn't have the "read for Librivox" tag, it takes up time and breaks up an otherwise fluid listening experience, but that's a small complaint about free poems read well.