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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.
"Mining in a Medieval Landscape" explores the history and
archaeology of the late medieval royal silver mines at Bere Ferrers
in Devon's Tamar Valley and examines their significance for mining
history as a whole. Comparing their impact on the landscape with
that of less intensive, traditional mining industries, this
authoritative volume analyzes maps and documents together in light
of recent archaeological field surveys, allowing the mining
landscape to be reconstructed in remarkable detail.
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.
A scholarly edition of poetical works by Christopher Smart. The
edition presents an authoritative text, together with an
introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
The extent to which Anglo-Saxon society was capable of large-scale
transformations of the landscape is hotly disputed. This
interdisciplinary book - embracing archaeological and historical
sources - explores this important period in our landscape history
and the extent to which buildings, settlements and field systems
were laid out using sophisticated surveying techniques. In
particular, recent research has found new and unexpected evidence
for the construction of building complexes and settlements on
geometrically precise grids, suggesting a revival of the techniques
of the Roman land-surveyors (Agrimensores). Two units of
measurement appear to have been used: the 'short perch' of 15 feet
in central and eastern England, where most cases occur, and the
'long perch' of 18 feet at the small number of examples identified
in Wessex. This technically advanced planning is evident during two
periods: c.600-800, when it may have been a mostly monastic
practice, and c.940-1020, when it appears to have been revived in a
monastic context but then spread to a wider range of lay
settlements. Planning in the Early Medieval Landscape is a
completely new perspective on how villages and other settlement
were formed. It combines map and field evidence with manuscript
treatises on land-surveying to show that the methods described in
the treatises were not just theoretical, but were put into
practice. In doing so it reveals a major aspect of previously
unrecognised early medieval technology.
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