A facsimile reprint in the Revolution & Romanticism series chosen and introduced by Jonathan Wordsworth
174 x 110 mm 134 pages
incl 5 plates
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CHARLOTTE SMITH
Elegiac Sonnets 1789
Wordsworth described Charlotte Smith as 'with a true feeling for rural nature, at a time when Nature was not much regarded by English Poets.' With William Lisle Bowles, Smith has the distinction of bringing the sonnet back into favour at the outset of the Romantic period.
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TO THE RIVER ARUN
On thy wild banks, by frequent torrents worn,
No glittering fanes or marble domes appear,
Yet shall the mournful muse thy course adorn,
And still to her thy rustic waves be dear.
For with the infant Otway, lingering here,
Of early woes she bade her votary dream,
While thy low murmurs soothed his pensive ear,
And still the poet consecrates the stream.
Beneath the oak and birch that fringe thy side
The first-born violets of the year shall spring,
And in thy hazels, bending o’er the tide,
The earliest nightingale delight to sing:
While kindred spirits, pitying, shall relate
Thy Otway’s sorrows and lament his fate.
(page 26)
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