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It is notable that beginning with Robert Browning, it has been poets rather than critics who have been the warmest and most perceptive admirers of the poetry of Christopher Smart. In a 1975 radio broa...
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Browning was an English poet and playwright who is considered one of the outstanding poets of the nineteenth century. Much of his poetry is expressive of his metaphysical concerns with the nature of a...
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In the following essay, Dillingham analyzes the importance of the works of King David and Horace as models for Smart's poetry.
Christopher Smart's career is generally perceived as a para...
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In the essay below, King examines the "psychological and structural interdependences" between Jubilate Agno and A Song to David, focusing particularly on Smart's identification wi...
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In the following essay, Katz argues that by organizing language in his poetry, Smart both defines himself and gives form and shape to the inexpressible.
During the period extending from May 1757 to Fe...
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In this originally unsigned essay, Hanson argues that Smart's Translation of the Psalms provides the "missing link" between the brilliance of A Song to David and the mediocrity of...
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In this essay, Falls extols A Song to David as an inspired poem and far superior to the rest of Smart's output.
We can but hope that Smart's words on David were true of himself. Gre...
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In this essay, Havens identifies patterns of language, imagery, and numerology as ordering elements in A Song to David.
Certain structural features of Christopher Smart's Song to David, such as...
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Stead was the discoverer and first editor of the manuscript of Jubilate Agno. The following excerpt is taken from his introduction to the first edition of the work, which he called Rejoice in the Lamb...
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In the following excerpt, Callan broadly surveys Smart's work, attempting to identify the characteristics of the poet's style.
It is not an easy matter to dissociate the poetry Smart wro...
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In the following excerpt, Blaydes discusses the intrinsic value of Smart's Seatonian poetry, as well as its relationship to the author's later work, particularly A Song to David.
Since t...
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In this essay, Hart demonstrates how the satire in Smart's work reveals a fear of cuckoldry and sexual impotence.
A good deal of satire appears throughout the works of Christopher Smart, and th...
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In the following essay, which was first published in 1974, Hartman addresses questions regarding the nature of verbal representation which arise from Smart's elaborate word-play in Jubilate Agn...
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Christopher Smart
Poem by Robert Browning
