Beachy Head

Name: Beachy Head
Author: Charlotte Smith

by Charlotte Smith

Long poem depicting the English seaside landscape with philosophical and historical reflection

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Charlotte Smith

Smith was a pioneering figure who combined the Gothic, the sentimental, and nascent social realism in her novels, influencing Austen and Wordsworth alike. Her Elegiac Sonnets revived the sonnet form and her fiction explored the precarious position of women.

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