Author: Christopher Smart
Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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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.
Author: Christopher Smart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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Author: Christopher Smart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 35
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Author: Christopher Smart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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A scholarly edition of poetical works by Christopher Smart. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
Author: Christopher Smart
Publisher: Atheneum Books
ISBN: 9780689310263
Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Enumerates all the special qualities of Jeoffry the cat.
Author: Oliver Soden
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750995939
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 111
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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.
Author: Christopher Smart
Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Author: Chris Mounsey
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838754832
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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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
Author: Christopher Smart
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017757842
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Christopher Smart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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