Charlotte Smith
Charlotte Smith wrote Elegiac Sonnets in 1783 while she was in debtor’s prison with her husband and children. William Wordsworth identified her as an important influence on the Romantic movement. She published several longer works that celebrated the individual while deploring social injustice and the British class system.
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Poems By CHARLOTTE SMITH
Poet Categorization
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Romantic
LIFE SPAN 1749–1806
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Biography
Charlotte Smith wrote Elegiac Sonnets in 1783 while she was in debtor’s prison with her husband and children. William Wordsworth identified her as an important influence on the Romantic movement. She published several longer works that celebrated the individual while deploring social injustice and the British class system.
