![]() ![]() Charlotte Smith pretty much single-handedly re-popularized the sonnet form. ![]() That's basically what Charlotte Smith did by combining the sonnet form with the elegy, and it was a revolutionary move to make in 1785, when the only sonnets most readers were familiar with had been written a couple of centuries before, by William Shakespeare and by the Italian poet Petrarch. This combination was pretty mind-blowing: imagine if you heard someone singing a really peppy tune that everyone knows, like "Twinkle, twinkle little star," only they changed the words to be about death and sorrow. Charlotte Smith published "To Melancholy" as a part of her collection of poems she called "Elegiac Sonnets." She basically smushes together two types of poetic form: the elegy, or a sad, mournful poem, and the sonnet, which is traditionally a love poem. ![]()
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