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 ...
Christopher Smart has usually been represented as a poet whose madness or mysticism allowed him to be treated as an eccentric exception, a colourful visionary of only peripheral importance to our understanding of 18th century literature. This study offers a reappraisal of Smart's religious poetry in the context of what are now often seen as ...
This volume collects essays by 13 scholars on to aspects of the work of poet Christopher Smart. A section on modern recreations of Smart's poems follows two comprehensive chapters placing Smart in the context of his own time (the mid-18th century).
Description: Fine. The Harvard Classics Collector's Edition of the poems of William Collins, George Sewell, Alison Rutherford Cockburn, Jane Elliot, Christopher Smart, John Logan, Henry Fielding, Charles Dibdin, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Robert Graham of Gartmore, Adam Austin, William Cowper, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Isobel Pagan, Lady Anne LIndsay, Thomas Chatterton, Carolina Oliphant, Lady Nairne, Alexander Ross, John Skinner, Michael Bruce, George Halket, William ... read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: University Of Missouri-Columbia
Date Published: 2004
Description: Fine. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A photo of this book is available. Near-new copy. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, bright pages 287 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Tight spine, bright pages. Featuring a special section on Smart Kids, edited by Renny Christopher. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: William Bishop
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. CONTENTS INCLUDE: 'The Good Gallery Guide' by Jane Routh; 'At the Edge' by Christopher J Smart; 'A Sequence' by Steve Makin; 'A Winning Shot' by Mark B Tracy; 'Blues in f16' by Peter Jennings; 'Brandt New' by Peter Marshall; 'Expression in Print' by Virginia Khuri; Book reviews. 52pp. read more
Description: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 303 pp. Ex-library. Fair to Good/No Jacket. Exterior spine reinforced professionally by librarian, usual library markings-a somewhat shabby but functional copy of a scarce, desirable edition of Rejoice in the Lamb, errata slip still present. No Date. Very Scarce. H4. read more
Edition: 1st American Ed., Corrected & Enlarged
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dobelbower, Key, and Simpson
Date Published: 1796
Description: Illustrated. Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. Volumes I-VIII, but lacking Volume II. Published 1795-95. Selected and compiled by Christopher Smart, Oliver Goldsmith and Samuel Johnson. Plates engraved by Harrison, Thackars, Scot, Allardice, Reiche, Seymour, Shallus, Trenchard, and Barker. Printed by Thompson--colophon in v. 1, 3, 6, 7. Vol. 3-5 published in 1795; Vol. 1, 6 & 8 published in 1796. Title pages engraved. Signed: W. Harrison. Vols. V & VII both have the table of contents, and the ... read more
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