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Satire on the Present Times, 249

Scott, Sir Walter, 8, 204, 208

Scourge and Satirist, 228

Sensibility, 26–7, 37, 41, 45–6, 53,

57, 70, 115, 126, 128–31,

132, 139, 141, 144, 153, 211

Setzer, Sharon, ix, 2, 11, 188, 244,

253, 254

Seward, Anna

as literary rival to MR, 114, 115,

125

on sonnets, 123–4, 250

thought to be Anna Matilda, 45,

246

sexuality, 5, 82, 113–19, 126–31,

132–5, 137–48, 200, 249,

251

Shaffer, Julie, ix, 2, 244

Shakespeare, William, 89, 204, 238

Bell’s editions of, 36

Julius Caesar, 156

King Lear, 160

Macbeth, 30, 162, 219

The Merchant of Venice, 156–8

A Midsummer Night’s Dream,

22, 24, 25–7, 29, 229

MR as actress in plays by, 2, 3, 5,

23, 70, 149

Much Ado about Nothing, 94–5

Romeo and Juliet, 2, 27

sonnets, 52, 120–2, 125–6, 250

Venus and Adonis, 103

Warton’s characterization of, 52

The Winter’s Tale, 3, 5, 23, 66,

76, 149

Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 7, 247

“Ode to the West Wind,” 79,

150–1

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 6, 23,

33, 35–6, 49, 66–8, 97, 105,

167

Siddons, Sarah, 149, 157

Sidney, Sir Philip, 125

Astrophil and Stella, 140, 142

Sisman, Adam, 253

Skirving, William, 171

slave trade, 65, 158–9, 164–6

Smith, Charlotte, 1, 7, 27–8, 41, 45,

59, 70, 89, 113, 114, 115,

121–3, 125, 127, 151, 200,

205, 244, 245, 249, 250

celebrates Thomas Otway, 89

disdains association with MR, 27

Elegiac Sonnets, 41, 45, 59, 121,

249, 250

illegitimate sonnets of, 121–4,

127, 151

as literary rival to MR, 114, 125

MR’s Oberon sonnet to, 27–8

as novelist, 115, 205

Smollett, Tobias

Humphry Clinker, 168, 171–4,

177–8

Smucker, Samuel, 185

sonnet, 11, 14, 16, 20, 27–8, 32,

41, 45, 48, 54–5, 57, 59, 80,

81, 111–52, 154–8, 162,

172, 203, 205, 231–4, 241,

247, 249–50

see also Milton, John; Petrarch;

Robinson, Mary, Sappho

and Phaon; Seward, Anna;

Shakespeare, William;

Sidney, Sir Philip; Smith,

Charlotte, Elegiac Sonnets

The Sorrows of Young Werter, see

Goethe

Southey, Robert, 8, 155, 210

and “Alonzo” meter, 206–7

edits Annual Anthology, 217–19,

221

“The Battle of Blenheim,” 218

as Byondo, 184

Coleridge praises MR to, 197,

200–3, 205, 217, 219, 221

The Curse of Kehama, 198

“The Devil’s Thoughts,” 194

English Eclogues, 179, 252

“The Guns Have Ceased their

Thunder,” 188

humanitarian poetry of, 166,

180, 252

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