A form of sound words : the religious poetry of Christopher Smart

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A form of sound words : the religious poetry of Christopher Smart

Harriet Guest

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1989

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Christopher Smart has usually been represented as a poet whose madness or mysticism allowed him to be treated as an eccentric exception, a colourful visionary of only peripheral importance to our understanding of 18th century literature. This study offers a reappraisal of Smart's religious poetry in the context of what are now often seen as disparate areas of thought: theories of language and of natural philosophy. The poetry is also considered in the context of some of the vast range of writing - from private devotions to sermons, from hymns to biblical criticism - which demonstrates the pervasive importance of religion in the period, and the complexity of the issues it raised.

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  • Some themes and problems in the religious poetry of 18th century Britain
  • Smart's Seatonian poems and the "pure" poetry of praise
  • the form of pure praise in "Jubilate Agno"
  • the language of "Jubilate Agno"
  • the natural philosophy of "Jubilate Agno"
  • the "Song to David" and "Hymns and Spiritual Songs".

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