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Christopher Smart (Writers and their Work) - Softcover

Neil Curry

 
9780746310144: Christopher Smart (Writers and their Work)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0746310145 ISBN 13: 9780746310144
Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2005

Synopsis

This close and sensitive study shows Christopher Smart (1722-1771) to be one of the finest and most important English religious poets between George Herbert and Gerard Manley Hopkins. In contrast to the grimness of much evangelical writing and despite his own personal hardships, Smart is seen here as a poet of adoration and joy.

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Synopsis

Smart is popularly known for having written his exuberant lyric 'A Song to David' and the cryptic 'Jubilate Agno' while locked away in a madhouse, then ending his days in a debator's jail. But this close and sensitive study show him to be out finest and out most important religious poet between Herbert and Hopkins.

About the Author

Neil Curry has taught at the University of Guelph in Ontario.

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Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0746310145
ISBN 13 
9780746310144
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
128