Charlotte Smith's "Written at the Close of Spring"

This episode focuses on a sonnet by Charlotte Smith, one of the best (and certainly one of the most underrated) poets of the late 18th century.  The podcast offers a reading of the poem, an explication, and some commentary on the meaning, value, and significance of the work--particularly in light of Smith's own biography, her status as a woman writer, her place in the "Literature of Sensibility," and her historical importance as a catalyst for the Romantic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.