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Christopher Smart
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Author : Chris Mounsey
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2001
Christopher Smart written by Chris Mounsey and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"This new biography of Christopher Smart offers a picture of a multifaceted eighteenth-century wit whose writing has far-reaching social, political, and historical significance. Poet, journalist, theater performer, cross-dresser, and theologian, who was questionably incarcerated for insanity, wherever Smart found himself his approach to life was at once serious and joyful, confirming him as one of God's clowns." "Building on previous biographical, bibliographical, and critical work - as well as on a broad scholarship on the publishing trade, on Grub Street and the position of the professional writer, and on the institutional treatment of madness in eighteenth-century England - Chris Mounsey constructs a version of Smart's life that is radically original. In its intelligent use of legal, parliamentary, and other archives, Mounsey both reappraises the familiar source material and mounts a challenge to earlier accounts of Smart's life and career. New interpretations of Smart's relationship with others (including his father-in-law John Newbery), his life on Grub Street as a political satirist, and his involvement in theological speculations provide a fuller and more engaging picture of the social, political, scientific, and religious context of his life and work."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Poetical Works Of Christopher Smart
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Author : Christopher Smart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
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The Poems Of The Late Christopher Smart Consisting Of His Prize Poems Odes Sonnets And Fables Latin And English Translations
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Author : Christopher Smart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1791
The Poems Of The Late Christopher Smart Consisting Of His Prize Poems Odes Sonnets And Fables Latin And English Translations written by Christopher Smart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1791 with categories.
Christopher Smart
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Author : Frances E. Anderson
language : en
Publisher: New York : Twayne Publishers
Release Date : 1974
Christopher Smart written by Frances E. Anderson and has been published by New York : Twayne Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book is designed as an introduction to Christopher Smart's poetry for the general reader, the college student, and the college teacher. The political, social, and literary background of eighteenth-century England is examined in the first part of this volume. The second part concerns itself with Smart's life and the factors affecting his career as a poet. The last and largest section contains a critical evaluation of Christopher Smart's poetry, arranged chronologically, with special emphasis on the "Song to David." Some discussion is included on his prose published in periodicals, and there are a few general comments concerning his prose and verse translations. (Ll).
The Annotated Letters Of Christopher Smart
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Author : Christopher Smart
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 1991
The Annotated Letters Of Christopher Smart written by Christopher Smart and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The only collection of all known letters of Christopher Smart provides the best psychological explanation to date of that complex and elusive eighteenth-century poet. The significant characteristics that distinguish Smart’s prose letters from his poetry, Betty Rizzo and Robert Mahony note, are that his letters were requests for assistance while his verses were bequests, gifts in which he set great store. Indeed, it was Smart’s lifelong conviction that he was a poet of major importance. As Smart biographer Karina Williamson notes, "The splendidly informative and vivaciously written accounts of the circumstances surrounding each letter, or group of letters, add up to what is in effect a miniature biography."
The Poems Of The Late Christopher Smart
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Author : Christopher Smart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1791
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Christopher Smart
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Author : Christopher Smart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1931
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The Religious Poetry
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Author : Christopher Smart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
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The Poems Of The Late Christopher Smart Consisting Of His Prize Poems Odes Sonnets And Fables Latin And English Translations Together With Many Original Compositions Not Included In The Quarto Edition To Which Is Prefixed An Account Of His Life And Writings Etc
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Author : Christopher Smart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1791
The Poems Of The Late Christopher Smart Consisting Of His Prize Poems Odes Sonnets And Fables Latin And English Translations Together With Many Original Compositions Not Included In The Quarto Edition To Which Is Prefixed An Account Of His Life And Writings Etc written by Christopher Smart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1791 with categories.
Routledge Revivals The Collected Poems Of Christopher Smart 1949
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Author : Christopher Smart
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-09-19
Routledge Revivals The Collected Poems Of Christopher Smart 1949 written by Christopher Smart and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-19 with History categories.
First published in 1949, this book presents the collected works of Christopher Smart, the eighteenth-century poet whose life has an attraction for the curioso of literature. There is the early marriage with Anne Vane, his secret marriage, eighteenth-century Cambridge life, the intrigues of Grub Street, and, finally, insanity and confinement in an asylum. Smart remains a strange, enigmatic figure, repulsive or attractive according to the temperament of the investigator. His poetry is not easy to disentangle from his character – egocentric, given to exhibitionism, childish, oscillating between the extremes of self-belittlement and self-glorification; but he has his own claim to fame. Few other poets match him in directness of expression. He is a poet with the eye of a painter, developed in an unusually high degree. He has a stereoscopic vision which makes the object leap to the eye, the painter’s sense of physical texture and his skill in composing a picture. Then again, there is his versatility. He practised almost every kind of poetry and gave to each kind his own personal inflection. It is the aim of this edition to present as complete a text as possible in the way that Smart himself would have seen it and, in giving some account of the poet’s life, to link his poetry with it. The book will be of interest to students of eighteenth-century literature and history.