The only collection of all known letters of Christopher Smart provides the best psychological explanation to date of that complex and elusive eighteenth-century poet. The significant characteristics that distinguish Smart's prose letters from his poetry, Betty Rizzo and Robert Mahony note, are that his letters were requests for assistance while his verses were bequests, gifts in which he set great store. Indeed, it was Smart's lifelong conviction that he was a poet of major importance. As Smart biographer Karina ...
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The only collection of all known letters of Christopher Smart provides the best psychological explanation to date of that complex and elusive eighteenth-century poet. The significant characteristics that distinguish Smart's prose letters from his poetry, Betty Rizzo and Robert Mahony note, are that his letters were requests for assistance while his verses were bequests, gifts in which he set great store. Indeed, it was Smart's lifelong conviction that he was a poet of major importance. As Smart biographer Karina Williamson notes, "The splendidly informative and vivaciously written accounts of the circumstances surrounding each letter, or group of letters, add up to what is in effect a miniature biography."
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Add this copy of The Annotated Letters of Christopher Smart to cart. $21.00, very good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1991 by Southern Illinois University Press.
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Near Fine in Fine jacket. Octavo, maroon cloth covered boards in DJ, 184pp., illustrated in b&w. Book is near fine with light foxing to top edge of text block, previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf, text bright and unmarked, binding tight. DJ is fine.
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New in New jacket. Remainder. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Carbondale, Illinois, Southern Illinois University, 1991. First edition. 8vo. Deep raspberry cloth with silver lettering embossed on spine and front board, attractive dark plum endpapers, illustrated with black and white photographs of letters, 184 pp. Although Christopher Smart has been elevated by 20th-century scholarship to a position of major significance among 18th-century British poets, as a man he remains enigmatic. This first complete collection of his known letters presents the best psychological portrait to date. Remainder. New in a new dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover.
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