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Routledge Revivals: The Collected Poems of Christopher Smart (1949) - Volume One (Paperback)
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Routledge Revivals: The Collected Poems of Christopher Smart (1949) - Volume One (Paperback)
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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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