Poetry Week! Smith & Cowper

This upcoming week (Thursday, Oct 16th) we are focusing on the works of two brilliant Romantic British poets, William Cowper and Charlotte Smith.

Click on the titles of the works below for links to full text. As always, read through what you can of the suggested list--but come with ideas and questions nonetheless!

Cowper
Book I of The Task (1785)
"The Castaway"(1799)

Optional:
"Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce; Or, the Slave-Trader in the Dumps" (1788)

Smith
Beachy Head (1807)
From Elegiac Sonnets (1800):

• "On being cautioned against walking on a Headland overlooking the Sea, because it was frequented by a Lunatic" 
• "The Dead Beggar"
• "Ode to Death"
• "To Dependance" 

Optional: 

The Emigrants ("Dedication: To William Cowper, Esq" and "Book the First") (1793)

We hope to see you on Thursday, October 16th, from 2 - 3 p.m. at Sweet Claire's on Third Street. We will also be discussing our first "Dinner with...." night, discussing which faculty and author we would like to invite to kick-start our most popular (read: populated!) series!