Selected Poems

Selected Poems

Author: Christopher Smart

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13:

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Christopher Smart was one of the most original of 18th-century English poets before William Blake, with whom he has much in common. This edition contains his four major works complete and a selection of his other poems. - Google Books.


Jeoffry

Jeoffry

Author: Oliver Soden

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13: 0750995939

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Jeoffry was a real cat who lived 250 years ago, confined to an asylum with Christopher Smart, one of the most visionary poets of the age. In exchange for love and companionship, Smart rewarded Jeoffry with the greatest tribute to a feline ever written. Prize-winning biographer Oliver Soden combines meticulous research with passages of dazzling invention to recount the life of the cat praised as 'a mixture of gravity and waggery'. The narrative roams from the theatres and bordellos of Covent Garden to the cell where Smart was imprisoned for mania. At once whimsical and profound, witty and deeply moving, Soden's biography plays with the genre like a cat with a toy. It tells the story of a poet and a poem, while setting Jeoffry's life and adventures against the roaring backdrop of eighteenth-century London.


Christopher Smart

Christopher Smart

Author: Chris Mounsey

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780838754832

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"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


Poems

Poems

Author: Christopher Smart

Publisher:

Published: 1950

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13:

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