On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland

"On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because it was Frequented by a Lunatic", also known as Charlotte Turner Smith's Sonnet LXX, is an early Romantic poem which uses imagery of the sea and of madness to express poetic melancholy. It was first published in 1797, in the eighth edition of Smith's Elegiac Sonnets.

On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland

"On Being Cautioned Against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because it was Frequented by a Lunatic", also known as Charlotte Turner Smith's Sonnet LXX, is an early Romantic poem which uses imagery of the sea and of madness to express poetic melancholy. It was first published in 1797, in the eighth edition of Smith's Elegiac Sonnets.