Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The Eighteenth-Century Sonnet -- 2. Tradition -- Nightingales -- Streams -- River Arun -- Other Poetic Landscapes -- 3. Innovation -- The Sea -- Breaking 'the silent Sabbath of the grave': Sonnet XLIV -- Giddy Brinks and Lucid Lines -- 4. Wider Prospect -- Wider Prospect of the Sonnet Revival -- Smith in Posterity: A Fragile Inheritance -- 5. Botany to Beachy Head -- Goddess of Botany -- Economies of Vegetation -- Gossamer -- Beachy Head -- Bibliography -- Index.
This book explores Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets and clarifies its '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.
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