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 ...
This is the first literary critical edition of Christopher Smart's translation of Phaedrus' fables, and the first literary commentary on these fables in English. Many of the best known Aesopian fables are in fact the work of the Roman poet Phaedrus, a freed slave of the first century. In the eighteenth century, Phaedrus was in the pantheon of ...
An illustrated edition, by naive cat painter, Martin Leman, of a 94-line poem written in the 1780s by Christopher Smart (1722-1771). The haunting poem is completed by Martin's paintings of the mysterious cat Jeoffrey and the book is designed by Jill Leman.
Published here for the first time since 1767, Christopher Smart's verse translation of Horace was made in the prodigiously creative years between his release from the madhouse and his death. The translation strengthens the impression made by all Smart's later verse of a poet of remarkable lyrical virtuosity and boldness of expression. The ...
The third of a five-volume edition of Smart's original poems and verse translations, which is particularly concerned to show how Smart attempted to adapt the Psalms for his eighteenth-century English Christian audience.
This study explores how Soviet leaders shaped the image their state cast since the death of Stalin. The fact that the leaderships' legitimacy rested upon values and aims that were at odds with the international system imposed a cumbersome task of image management.
This volume contains miscellaneous verse, arranged in chronological order, showing the pattern of Smart`s evolution from both academic and popular roles into a poet dedicated to Christian service.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...
This volume contains miscellaneous verse, arranged in chronological order, showing the pattern of Smart`s evolution from both academic and popular roles into a poet dedicated to Christian service.
Together With The Characters Of The Inhabitants And Such Historical Anecdotes And Reflections, As May Excite In The Reader Proper Sentiments Of Humanity And Lead The Mind To The Love Of Virtue.
"Mining in a Medieval Landscape" explores the history and archaeology of the late medieval royal silver mines at Bere Ferrers in the Tamar Valley in Devon. It compares their impact on the landscape with less intensive, traditional mining industries. The analysis of maps and documents together with archaeological field-survey work allows the mining ...
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Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
by
Rainer Maria Rilke, Anita Barrows (Translator), Joanna Macy (Translator)
