How Did Charlotte Turner Smith Influence The Romantic Movement

Charlotte Turner Smith was a poet and novelist during the time of English Romanticism. She began the revival of the English sonnet and wrote political novels of deep feeling. Smith was a successful writer, publishing ten novels, three books of poetry, four children 's books, and other assorted works, over the course of her career. She always felt poetry was her calling although she excelled in her poems. Poetry was considered the most glorious form of literature at the time. Charlotte Smith 's poetry was admired by many romantic poets. After 1798, Smith 's fame faded and by 1803 she was poor and ill. In 1806, Charlotte Smith died. Eventually forgotten by the middle of the nineteenth century, her works have now been republished and she is recognized as an important Romantic writer. Many of her works today have been further interpreted to contain more messages and meanings behind them. Some of her significant works consist of the poems, “Written at the Close of Spring,” “To Sleep,” “Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex” and many more. In the list of these works, Charlotte Smith portrays message based on the life she lived and the time period in which she was from.

William Blake and Charlotte Smith were two romantic poets who both shared many qualities in their poetry as they did differences. For example, Blake and Smith's poems both show a strong sense of

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on 10th December, 1830, in the town of Amherst, Massachusetts. As a young child, she showed a bright intelligence, and was able to create many recognizable writings. Many close friends and relatives in Emily’s life were taken away from her by death. Living a life of simplicity and aloofness, she wrote poetry of great power: questioning the nature of immortality and death. Although her work was influenced by great poets of the time, she published many strong poems herself. Two of Emily Dickinson’s famous poems, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” and “I Heard a Fly Buzz- When I Died”,

George Washington was one of many that was impressed with her work. During this time period, the writings were focused mostly on freedom. This was at the same time of the Revolutionary war against Britain. When he was appointed commander in 1775, she sent him a ode in his honor. It spoke a lot of

Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) and Phyllis Wheatley (1753–1784), although over a century apart, were pioneers of women’s American literature. There are interesting similarities as well as differences between these two women, but the obstacles they would each face, and ultimately overcome would help to pave the road for women all over the world. Bradstreet, a well educated woman from a wealthy, puritan family, and Wheatley, a slave taught to read and write by her owner, would make history with their published poems.

Her writings frequently demonstrated a fascination with death and also explored the mysterious, rather sinister reality, which lurks behind appealing or innocent appearances. Smith’s volatile attachment to the Church of England is evident in her poetry, but death, her "gentle friend," was perhaps her most popular subject according to a biography actually written by Mark Halliday himself. He says that much of her inspiration came from theology and the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm (Halliday 36). Her obsession with death and suicide was seen as more of despair than it was a yearning to explore death and did not relate to how it preoccupied other eighteenth-century poets. Her style was often very dark; her characters were perpetually saying "goodbye" to their friends or welcoming death.

In this essay we will look into her life through three of her poems in

　　　　On December 10, 1830, Emily Dickinson was born in her hometown where she would spend the rest of her life, Amherst, Massachusetts. Dickinson enjoyed writing and often credited herself on her wittiness and intelligence. She was a poet who made current events and situations the subjects of many of her writings. Although she wrote throughout her life, some of the poems were not found until after her death. Dickinson’s Family found the poems when she passed and then they began to be published and edited. Also, the poems found were grouped together to form a volume of them in order (Eberwein). Her poems had many influences throughout their production. Emily Dickinson 's poems were heavily influenced by religion, close deaths, and family.

First of all, the author of the article explains the importance of Charlotte by analyzing the similarities between his son’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and her own poetry. She shared her love of writing with her son, so she could have influenced him. The opening verses of Eliot's poem bear some

There was an English Poet of the Romantic Movement named Samuel Taylor Coleridge. During the time period he was alive, he was known for his sea-faring poem, “the Rime of the Ancient Mariner”. Coleridge wrote a lot of poems such as, “Kublan Klan”, “The Suicide’s Argument”, and much more. On October 21, 1772 the English Poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born at Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire. Years later, Coleridge had 4 children (Sara Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge, Hartley Coleridge, and Berkeley Coleridge).

Emily Dickinson is one of the most interesting female poets of the nineteenth century. Every author has unique characteristics about him/her that make one poet different from another, but what cause Emily Dickinson to be so unique are not only the words she writes, but how she writes them. Her style of writing is in a category of its own. To understand how and why she writes the way she does, her background has to be brought into perspective. Every poet has inspiration, negative or positive, that contributes not only to the content of the writing itself, but the actual form of writing the author uses to express his/her personal talents. Emily Dickinson is no different. Her childhood and adult experiences and culture form

Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was the middle child of parents Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson. Young Emily Dickinson’s early childhood consisted of attending school, reading books, taking part in church activities, and learning to sing and play the piano. Her formal schooling was phenomenal for girls in the early 19th century, though not unusual for girls in Amherst. After spending some time in Amherst district school, she attended Amherst Academy for about 7 years before entering Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) in 1847. Dickinson’s early years were not without distress. Deaths of friends and relatives, including her young cousin Sophia Holland, prompted questions about death and immortality. Death happens to be a recurring theme in Dickinson’s poetry. Although this is the case, no two poems have exactly the same understanding of death, however. Death is sometimes frightening, lenient and gentle, or simply inevitable. The intent of this paper is to analyze the persistent theme of death in Dickinson’s poetry and how it is portrayed in some of her most well-known pieces. These select few poems will include “I like a look of Agony”, “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died” and “Because I could not stop for Death.”

With the American War of Independence and The French Revolution serving as inspiration in the late 18th century, humanitarianism quickly gained popularity. Aiden Day referred to this as ‘The fashionableness of humanitarian sympathy’ (Day 12). Charlotte Smith was one of the many poets to be taken in by the tide of Humanitarianism that gripped writers of the Romantic era and that is pronounced in both her prose and poetry. Although, as Day points out, Smith targeted her writing towards a particular middle-class audience, and therefore wrote to serve them, there is still evidence of her ‘radical leanings’ throughout her writing (Day 31). While in some of her work such as The Old Manor House it is not made obvious, the same cannot be said for all of her work. For example, in her poem The Emigrants Smith describes the new lives of French people exiled from their home country after the French Revolution (Day

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, and virtually any other social media would not exist as they do in 2016 without the influence of the Romantic Era. Though the Romantic Era occurred over 200 years ago, its characteristics are an intrinsic part of today’s culture and society. The Romantic Era was well know for attributes such as the feelings of intense emotion, individuality, imagination, and an ardour for the natural realm.

The Romantic Movement, known for its emphasis on the emotional aspect of literature, was a period when such novels as Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus were written, being very different than novels written before this era. Romantic thinkers and writers, such as Mary Shelley, believed that imagination was the crucial way of thinking. They often depicted their heroes in their novels as “creative artists” that are determined to push beyond society’s restrictions and ways of life. Mary Shelley was similar to these writers of such concepts and had incorporated many of these principles in her own novel, Frankenstein. She was apprehensive about the healing powers of nature in the face of unnatural events, the use of one’s knowledge for good or evil intentions, the way the uneducated or poor were treated, and the rapid increase of technology into the modern day.