Christopher Smart

Smart, Christopher - 1722–71, English poet. A graduate of Cambridge, he lived in London writing poems, editing a humorous magazine, and producing plays. His one great poem, Song to David (1763), an inspirational piece containing superb imagery, was written while he was confined in an asylum for a religious mania. He is also known for his idiosyncratic and often anthologized paean to his Read More...

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Christopher Smart: Clown of God
by Chris Mounsey. 342 pgs.

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Chris Mounsey teaches at King Alfred's College, Winchester.

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The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture

Christopher Smart

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Introduction: Christopher Smart, Clown of God

1: Kent, 1722–1733

2: Durham, 1733–1739

3: Cambridge, 1739–1753

4: The Hop-Garden, 1741–1752

5: London, 1744–1756

6: London, 1753–1759

7: The Prison Poems, 1757–1763

8: London, 1763–1771

9: The Construction of a Mad Poet, 1771–1999

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A Poetical Translation of the Fables of Phaedrus
by Christopher Smart, Karina Williamson. 157 pgs.

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Volume VI of Smart's collected poetry contains the first literary critical edition of his translation of Phaedrus's fables, and the first literary commentary on these fables in English. The editors provide a full introduction, commentary, and scholarly apparatus.

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CONTENTS

ABBREVIATIONS AND REFERENCES

TEXTUAL INTRODUCTION

INTRODUCTION

The First Book of the Fables of Phaedrus.

The Second Book of the Fables of Phaedrus.

The Third Book of the Fables of Phaedrus.

The Fourth Book of the Fables of Phaedrus.

The Fifth Book of the Fables of Phaedrus.

THE APPENDIX OF GUDIUS.

COMMENTARY

APPENDIX A: Scurra et Rusticus

APPENDIX B: List of Select Editions of Phaedrus

INDEX OF TITLES

GENERAL INDEX TO THE TEXT, volUMES I-VI
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The Works of Horace, Translated into Verse
by Christopher Smart, Karina Williamson. 476 pgs.

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Volume V of the collected poetry publishes Smart's verse translation of Horace for the first time since 1767. Made in the prodigiously creative years between his release from the madhouse and his death, the translation now emerges as testimony to Smart's tireless creativity and poetic energy, and as a significant contribution to the present reappraisal of Horace's influence on English literature. The editors provide an introduction, full scholarly apparatus, and a detailed and clarifying commentary which explains Smart's more obscure passages.

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Acknowledgements

Contents

Abbreviations and References

Introduction

Preface

The Odes

The First Book of the Odes of Horace

The Second Book of the Odes of Horace

The Third Book of the Odes of Horace

The Fourth Book of the Odes of Horace

The Book of the Epodes of Horace

The Satires

The First Book of the Satires of Horace

The Second Book of the Satires of Horace

The Epistles

The First Book of the Epistles of Horace

The Second Book of the Epistles of Horace

Horace His Art of Poetry

Commentary

Index of Proper Names
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The Annotated Letters of Christopher Smart
by Christopher Smart, Robert Mahony, Betty Rizzo, . 188 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction

List of Abbreviated Titles

Principal Events in Smart's Life

Letters Iii, Iv, V, Vi, Vii, Viii, and IX Correspondence with Robert Dodsley, 1746-1748

Letter VIII to Robert Dodsley, 12 January 1748

Letters Xiv, Xvii, Xix, Xx, Xxi, Xxvii, and XXIX Correspondence with Paul Panton, 1764-1769

Letter XVIII to George Colman the Elder, 27 February 1766

Letter XXIII [manuscript and Text Lost] to Charles Burney, 1767

Letter XXIV [manuscript and Text Lost] to Mrs. Skinner, 2 or 3 January 1768

Letter XXV [manuscript and Text Lost] to Charles Burney, 2 or 3 January 1768

Letter XXXII [manuscript and Most of Text Lost] to Charles Burney, 1770-71

Appendix A Appendix B Index

Appendix A Correspondence of "C.S." and "a Clergyman of great reputation," in the Christian's Magazine, September 1762

Appendix B Letters of Francis Newbery and Charles Burney the Younger about the Publication of Smart's Works, 1791-1800

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5 .

Older Masters: Essays and Reflections on English and American Literature (Chap. 13 "Christopher Smart: Some Neglected Poems")
by Donald Davie. 328 pgs.

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1: Chaucer and One Idea of Englishness

2: A Reading of 'the Ocean's Love to Cynthia'

3: Shakespeare and the Practising Poet Today

4: A West-Country Poet: Sidney Godolphin

5: Syntax and Music in Paradise Lost

6: Edward Taylor and Isaac Watts

7: Dramatic Poetry: Dryden's Conversation-Piece

8: The Language of Science and the Language of Literature, 1700-1740

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9: Berkeley and the Style of Dialogue

10: Yeats, Berkeley and Romanticism

11: Language and Poetry in the English Enlightenment

12: Two Reviews

13: Christopher Smart: Some Neglected Poems

14: Goldsmith as Monarchist

15: John Ledyard: the American Traveller and His Sentimental Journeys

16: The Critical Principles of William Cowper

17: Personification

18: Politics and Literature: John Adams and Doctor Johnson

19: Dionysus in Lyrical Ballads

20: The Poetry of Sir Walter Scott

21: William Cullen Bryant's 'to a Waterfowl'

22: John Keats: a Genius and His Limitations

23: Attending to Landor

24: Browning and Modernism

Index of Names
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Smart's Bawdy Politic: Masculinity and the Second Age of Horn in 'Jubilate Agno,' in Criticism
by Clement Hawes. 29 pgs.

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Christopher Smart's Old Woman's Oratory and the Patent Theatres: Legitimacy, Transgression, and "Rational Mirth," in Theatre History Studies
by Noel Chevalier. 16 pgs.

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The English Hymn: A Critical and Historical Study (Discussion of Christopher Smart begins on p. 276)
by J. R. Watson. 552 pgs.

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Why do people sing hymns? Are hymns poetry? What makes a good hymn? The author discusses the nature of hymns and their particular appeal, examines the English hymn as a literary form, and systematically describes its development through four centuries, from the Reformation to the mid-twentieth century.

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The English Hymn: A Critical and Historical Study

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1: Discussing Hymns: the State of the Art

2: The Singing of Hymns, and the Experience of Metre

3: Laud Unto the Lord

4: Keeping Company with David's Psalms: George Wither and Others

5: The Seventeenth-Century Anglican Tradition

6: The Journey to Zion: Puritan Psalms and Hymns

7: Isaac Watts

8: After Watts

9: John and Charles Wesley

10: Charles Wesley and His Art

11: After the Wesleys

12: The Romantic Period: Montgomery, Heber, Keble

13: The Victorian Hymn

14: The Oxford Movement, and the Revival of Ancient Hymnody

15: Hymns Ancient and Modem

16: Victorian Women Hymn-Writers

17: American Hymnody

18: Different Traditions

19: Into the Twentieth Century

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The Rise of Romanticism: Essential Texts (Discussion of Christopher Smart begins on p. 249)
by Brian Hepworth. 368 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction

Thomas Burnet (1635?-1715)

John Locke (1632-1704)

John Dennis (1657-1734)

Joseph Trapp (1679-1747)

George Berkeley (1685-1753)

Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713)

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

Joseph Spence (1699-1768)

Thomas Blackwell (1701-1757)

David Hume (1711-1776)

Edward Young (1683-1765)

Robert Lowth (1710-1787)

Joseph Warton (1722-1800)

Zekiel

William Collins (1721-1759)

Thomas Gray (1716-71)

Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

Mark Akenside (1721-1770)

David Hartley (1705-1757)

Christopher Smart (1722-1771)

Maurice Morgann (1726-1802)

Hugh Blair (1718-1800)

William Hogarth (1697-1764)

William Blake (1757-1827)

Richard Hurd (1720-1808)

Thomas Warton the Younger (1728-1790)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
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The Insufficiency, Success and Significance of Natural History, in Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
by Eric Miller. 15 pgs.

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