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 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).
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 ...
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