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Elegiac Sonnets, titled Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Essays by Charlotte Sussman of Bignor Park, in Sussex in its first edition, [1] is a collection of poetry written by Charlotte Smith, first published in 1784. It was widely popular and frequently reprinted, with Smith adding more poems over time.
Smith in 1596 published a collection of sonnets, entitled Chloris, or the Complaint of the passionate despised Shepheard, printed by Edmund Bollifant, 1596.The volume opens with two sonnets, inscribed "To the most excellent and learned shepheard, Collin Cloute" (i.e. Spenser), and signed "W. Smith"; in a third sonnet addressed to Spenser at the close of the book Smith calls Spenser his patron.
Perfect is the enemy of good is an aphorism that means insistence on perfection often prevents implementation of good improvements. Achieving absolute perfection may be impossible; one should not let the struggle for perfection stand in the way of appreciating or executing on something that is imperfect but still of value.
This sets the sonnet apart from Smith's later River Arun poems, which "[see] the poet-historian as a preservationist with special power." [ 5 ] Instead, "To the South Downs" (alongside "Written at the Close of Early Spring" and "To Spring" in the first edition of Elegiac Sonnets ) is a classically Romantic poem, "specifically because those ...
Edward Sachse (1804-1873) was an artist and lithographer whose business E. Sachse & Co. in Baltimore, Maryland published prints of regional sights and cities. Works include a 12 sheet aerial view of Baltimore that employed several artists over a three-year period.
Saxe was born in 1816 in Highgate, Vermont, [2] at Saxe's Mills, where his grandfather, John Saxe (Johannes Sachse), a German immigrant and Loyalist, built the area's first gristmill in 1786. Saxe was the son of Peter Saxe – miller, judge and periodic member of the Vermont House of Representatives – and Elizabeth Jewett of Weybridge, Vermont .
C.W. Smith. C. W. Smith (full name Charles William Smith) was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, and grew up in Hobbs, New Mexico.He received a B.A. in English from the University of North Texas in 1964 and an M.A. in English from Northern Illinois University in 1967.
William Jay Smith (April 22, 1918 – August 18, 2015) was an American poet. He was appointed the nineteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1968 to 1970. [ 1 ]