Abstract
Abstract: This article suggests that Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head (1807) operates as a rejoinder to a larger medico-poetic discourse during the Romantic period, one that claimed poetry could move and thereby return its readers to health. Romantic-era poets and physicians regularly claimed that poetry can stimulate measured bodily motions, but the form and contents of Smith's poem are instead productive of interruption and stasis. Ruminating on the causes of rather than the cures for immobility, Smith's Beachy Head ultimately severs connections between poetry and healthfulness in favor of providing a record of chronic pain—of lives held in suspense.
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