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portada Routledge Revivals: The Collected Poems of Christopher Smart (1949): Volume One
Type
Physical Book
Author
Illustrated by
Publisher
Year
2018
Language
English
Pages
381
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9781138222526
Edition No.
1
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Routledge Revivals: The Collected Poems of Christopher Smart (1949): Volume One

Christopher Smart (Author) · Norman Callan (Illustrated by) · Routledge · Paperback

Routledge Revivals: The Collected Poems of Christopher Smart (1949): Volume One - Smart, Christopher ; Callan, Norman

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Synopsis "Routledge Revivals: The Collected Poems of Christopher Smart (1949): Volume One"

First published in 1949, this book presents the collected works of Christopher Smart, the eighteenth-century poet whose life has an attraction for the curioso of literature. There is the early marriage with Anne Vane, his secret marriage, eighteenth-century Cambridge life, the intrigues of Grub Street, and, finally, insanity and confinement in an asylum. Smart remains a strange, enigmatic figure, repulsive or attractive according to the temperament of the investigator. His poetry is not easy to disentangle from his character - egocentric, given to exhibitionism, childish, oscillating between the extremes of self-belittlement and self-glorification; but he has his own claim to fame. Few other poets match him in directness of expression. He is a poet with the eye of a painter, developed in an unusually high degree. He has a stereoscopic vision which makes the object leap to the eye, the painter's sense of physical texture and his skill in composing a picture. Then again, there is his versatility. He practised almost every kind of poetry and gave to each kind his own personal inflection. It is the aim of this edition to present as complete a text as possible in the way that Smart himself would have seen it and, in giving some account of the poet's life, to link his poetry with it. The book will be of interest to students of eighteenth-century literature and history.

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