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The Poems of Charlotte Smith

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#349241-VF38
Titel	The Poems of Charlotte Smith
Auteur	Curran, Stuart
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij	Oxford University Press
Jaar van uitgave	1993
ISBN10	019507873x
ISBN13	9780195078732
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original gilt lettered red cloth, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Charlotte Turner Smith (1749-1806) was the author of ten novels, a play, and a host of innovative educational books for children, as well as several volumes of poetry that helped set priorities and determine the tastes of the culture of early Romanticism. Her Elegiac Sonnets sparked the sonnet revival in English Romanticism; The Emigrants initiated its passion for lengthy meditative introspection; and Beachy Head leant its poetic engagement with nature a uniquely telling immediacy. Smith was a woman, Wordsworth remarked a quarter century after her death "to whom English verse is under greater obligations than are likely to be either acknowledged or remembered." True to his prediction, Smith's poetry has virtually dropped from sight and thus from cultural consciousness. This, the ... (Lees verder)first edition of Smith's collected poems, will restore to all students of English poetry a distinctive, compelling voice. Likewise, the recovery of Smith to her rightful place among the Romantic poets must spur the reassessment of the place of women writers within that culture.
Pagina's	335
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 45,00

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