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Famously commemorated by William Wordsworth as a poet ‘to whom English verse is under greater obligations than are likely to be either acknowledged or remembered’, Charlotte Smith is an originating voice of ‘the Romantic’ whose importance is at last being recognized. Her early sonnets established the genre as a Romantic form; her novels advanced sensibility as a trope beyond its two-dimensional reliance on emotional facility; and her blank verse initiated one of the most familiar of Romantic verse forms. This volume draws together the best of current Smith scholarship. Essays are organized according to genre and set in context by a substantial introduction.
"'Contextualizing Smith as a writer in various genres – poetry, novels, plays, children's literature, letters – and as a major voice in Romanticism, Labbe has put together an accessible collection that attempts to unite the multifaceted public personas of Smith and illuminate the many narrative personas of her oeuvre. Recommended.'"
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