Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet : Form, Place and Tradition in the Late Eighteenth Century /
Bethan Roberts.
- 1 online resource (192 pages).
- Romantic reconfigurations. Studies in literature and culture 1780-1850 .
- Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Book based on the author's PhD thesis from the University of LIverpool.
Introduction -- The eighteenth-century sonnet -- Tradition -- Innovation -- Wider prospect -- Botany to Beachy Head.
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"Exploring Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets, author Bethan Roberts clarifies their 'place', understood in multiple ways, in literary history. It argues that Smith's work engages more deeply with tradition than has hitherto been realised and revises our understanding not only of Smith's career but also of the sonnet in eighteenth-century England"--
9781789624342
Smith, Charlotte, 1749-1806. Smith, Charlotte, 1749-1806 --Criticism and interpretation.
Sonnets, English. Elegiac poetry, English. Sonnets, English--History and criticism. Elegiac poetry, English--History and criticism.