Author |
Smith, Charlotte (nee Turner, 1749-1806). |
Title |
Elegiac sonnets. 7th ed. |
Imprint |
London. Printed by A. Strahan, for T. Cadell; sold by T.
Cadell jun. and W. Davies, 1795-97. |
Physical description |
Two vols. 12 mo. [2], xvi, 106, [2] advt.; [16],
xv, 117, [3].
Advt. and blank. Stipple-engraved portrait, 9 engraved plates, library
blind-stamps on titles and elsewhere. Contemporary quarter calf. |
Call number |
WPRP 72 |
Citation |
Seventh edition of the first volume, "with additional sonnets and
other poems," first edition of the second volume, which has a new list
of subscribers. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 100-1. |
Notes |
- Volume I includes Preface to the First and Second Editions, Preface
to the Third and Fourth Editions, Preface to the Fifth Edition, and
Preface to the Sixth Edition.
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- Volume II includes List of Subscribers, Preface, and "Quotations,
Notes, and Explanations."
|
Epigraph |
- Volume I has illustration and caption, source not listed and Volume
II has an epigraph:
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Vol. I:
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Oh! Time has Changed me since you saw me last.
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And heavy Hours with Time’s deforming Hand.
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Have written strange Defeatures in my Face.
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Vol. II:
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Non t’appreffar ove fia rifo e canto
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Canzone mio, no, ma pianto:
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Non fa per te di ftar con gente allegra
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Vedova fconfolata, in vefta nigra.
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PETRARCHA.
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Contents |
CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.
SONNETS.
I. |
|
.1 |
II. |
Written at the Close of Spring. |
2 |
III. |
To a Nightingale. |
3 |
IV. |
To the Moon |
4 |
V. |
To the South Downs. |
5 |
VI. |
To Hope |
6 |
VII. |
On the Departure of the Nightingale. |
7 |
VIII. |
To Spring |
8 |
IX. |
|
9 |
X. |
To Mrs. G. |
10 |
XI. |
To Sleep |
11 |
XII. |
Written from the Sea Shore |
12 |
XIII. |
From Petrarch |
13 |
XIV. |
From the same |
14 |
XV. |
From the same |
15 |
XVI. |
From Petrarch |
16 |
XVII. |
From the 13th Cantata of Metastasio |
17 |
XVIII. |
To the Earl of Egremont |
18 |
XIX. |
To Mr. Hayley |
19 |
XX. |
To the Countess of A-------- |
20 |
XXI. |
Supposed to be written by Werter |
21 |
XXII. |
By the same |
22 |
XXIII. |
By the same |
23 |
XXIV. |
By the same |
24 |
XXV. |
By the same |
25 |
XXVI. |
To the River Arun |
26 |
XXVII. |
|
27 |
XXVIII. |
To Friendship |
28 |
XXIX. |
To Miss C-------- |
29 |
XXX. |
To the River Arun |
30 |
XXXI. |
Written in Farm Wood, on the South Downs, May 1784 |
31 |
XXXII. |
To Melancholy. Written on the Banks of the Arun |
32 |
XXXIII. |
To the Naiad of the Arun |
33 |
XXXIV. |
To a Friend |
34 |
XXXV. |
To Fortitude |
35 |
XXXVI. |
|
36 |
XXXVII. |
Sent to the Honorable Mrs. O’Niell, with painted
flowers |
37 |
XXXVIII. |
From the Novel of Emmeline |
38 |
XXXIX. |
To Night. From the same |
39 |
XL. |
From the same |
40 |
XLI. |
To Tranquillity |
41 |
XLII. |
Composed during a walk on the Downs, November 1787 |
42 |
XLIII. |
|
43 |
XLIV. |
Written in the church-yard at Middleton in Sussex |
44 |
XLV. |
On leaving a part of Sussex |
45 |
XLVI. |
Written at Penshurst, in Autumn, 1788 |
46 |
XLVII. To Fancy |
|
47 |
XLVIII. |
To Mrs.**** |
48 |
XLIX. |
From the Novel of Celestina |
49 |
L. |
From the same |
50 |
LI. |
From the same |
51 |
LII. |
From the same |
52 |
LIII. |
From the same |
53 |
LIV. |
The Sleeping Woodman |
54 |
LV. |
The Return of the Nightingale |
55 |
LVI. |
The Captive escaped in the Wilds of America |
56 |
LVII. |
To Dependence |
57 |
LVIII. |
The Glow-worm |
58 |
LIX. |
Written in Sept. 1791, during a remarkable Thunder
Storm |
59 |
Ode to Despair, From the Novel of Emmeline |
|
60 |
Elegy |
|
63 |
Song. From the French of Cardinal Bernis |
|
68 |
The Origin of Flattery |
|
71 |
The Peasant of the Alps |
|
77 |
Song |
|
81 |
Thirty-eight |
|
82 |
Verses intended to have been prefixed to the Novel
of Emmeline |
|
86 |
CONTENTS OF VOLUME II.
SONNETS.
LX. |
To an amiable Girl |
1 |
LXI. |
Supposed to have been written in America |
2 |
Written on passing by Moon-light through a village,
while the ground was covered with Snow |
|
3 |
LXIII. |
The Gossamer |
4 |
LXIV. |
Written at Bristol in the Summer of 1794. |
5 |
To Dr. Parry of Bath, with some botanic Drawings
which had been made some years |
|
6 |
LXVI. |
Written in a tempestuous Night, on the coast of
Sussex |
7 |
LXVII. |
On passing over a dreary tract of country, and
near the ruins of a deserted chapel, during a Tempest |
8 |
LXVIII. |
Written at Exmouth, Midsummer 1795 |
9 |
Written at the same place, on seeing a Seaman return
who had been imprisoned at Rochfort |
|
10 |
On being cautioned against walking on an Headland
overlooking the Sea, because it was frequented by a Lunatic |
|
11 |
LXXI. Written at Weymouth in Winter |
|
12 |
LXXII. |
To the Morning Star. Written near the Sea |
13 |
LXXIII. To a querulous Acquaintance |
|
14 |
LXXIV. |
The Winter Night |
15 |
LXXV. |
|
16 |
LXXVI. |
To a Young Man entering the World |
17 |
LXXVII. |
To the Insect of the Gossamer |
18 |
LXXVIII. |
Snow-drops |
19 |
LXXIX. |
To the Goddess of Botany |
20 |
LXXX. |
To the Invisible Moon |
21 |
LXXXI. |
|
22 |
LXXXII. |
To the Shade of Burns |
23 |
LXXXIII. |
The Sea View |
24 |
LXXXIV. |
To the Muse |
25 |
The Dead Beggar |
|
26 |
The Female Exile |
|
29 |
Occasional Address. Written for the Benefit of
a distressed Player, detained at Brighthelmstone for debt, November
1792 |
|
33 |
Inscription on a Stone in the Church-Yard at Boreham,
in Essex |
|
38 |
A Descriptive Ode |
|
39 |
Verses supposed to have been written in the New
Forest, in early Spring |
|
46 |
Song. From the French |
|
48 |
Apostrophe to an Old Tree |
|
50 |
The Forest Boy |
|
54 |
Ode to the Poppy. Written by a deceased Friend |
|
68 |
Verses written by the same Lady on seeing her two
Sons at play |
|
72 |
Verses on the Death of the same Lady, written in
September 1794 |
|
74 |
Fragment, descriptive of the Miseries of War |
|
78 |
April |
|
82 |
Ode to Death |
|
87 |
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