Charlotte Smith-Sonnet "On Being Cautioned [...]" Poetry Analysis

Poetry Analysis for Charlotte Smith's 1797 sonnet.

Full title: "On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic"

Charlotte Smith (1749- 1806) is an important writer of the English Romantic Period--a period which lasted from roughly 1780-1830.

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“Charlotte Smith.” pp. 54-55. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Stephen Greenblatt. Tenth Edition. Print.

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"lunatic, adj. and n." OED Online, Oxford University Press, December 2018, www.oed.com/view/Entry/111179. Accessed 2 March 2019.

Peckham, Morse. “Toward a Theory of Romanticism.” PMLA, vol. 66, no. 2, 1951, pp. 5–23. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/459586.

Smith, Charlotte. “On Being Cautioned against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea. Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic.” P. 58. The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Stephen Greenblatt. Tenth Edition. Print.

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