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Book The Poems  of the Late Christopher Smart      Consisting of His Prize Poems  Odes  Sonnets  and Fables  Latin and English Translations

Download or read book The Poems of the Late Christopher Smart Consisting of His Prize Poems Odes Sonnets and Fables Latin and English Translations written by Christopher Smart and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Annotated Letters of Christopher Smart

Download or read book The Annotated Letters of Christopher Smart written by Christopher Smart and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Book The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart

Download or read book The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart written by Christopher Smart and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Poems of the Late Christopher Smart     Consisting of His Prize Poems  Odes  Sonnets and Fables  Latin and English Translations  Together with Many Original Compositions Not Included in the Quarto Edition  To which is Prefixed an Account of His Life and Writings  Etc

Download or read book The Poems of the Late Christopher Smart Consisting of His Prize Poems Odes Sonnets and Fables Latin and English Translations Together with Many Original Compositions Not Included in the Quarto Edition To which is Prefixed an Account of His Life and Writings Etc written by Christopher Smart and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christopher Smart and Satire

Download or read book Christopher Smart and Satire written by Min Wild and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Smart and Satire explores the lively and idiosyncratic world of satire in the eighteenth-century periodical, focusing on the way that writers adopted personae to engage with debates taking place during the British Enlightenment. Taking Christopher Smart's audacious and hitherto underexplored Midwife, or Old Woman's Magazine (1750-1753) as her primary source, Min Wild provides a rich examination of the prizewinning Cambridge poet's adoption of the bizarre, sardonic 'Mary Midnight' as his alter-ego. Her analysis provides insights into the difficult position in which eighteenth-century writers were placed, as ideas regarding the nature and functions of authorship were gradually being transformed. At the same time, Wild also demonstrates that Smart's use of 'Mary Midnight' is part of a tradition of learned wit, having an established history and characterized by identifiable satirical and rhetorical techniques. Wild's engagement with her exuberant source materials establishes the skill and ingenuity of Smart's often undervalued, multilayered prose satire. As she explores Smart's use of a peculiarly female voice, Wild offers us a picture of an ingenious and ribald wit whose satirical overview of society explores, overturns, and anatomises questions of gender, politics, and scientific and literary endeavors.

Book Reading Christopher Smart in the Twenty first Century

Download or read book Reading Christopher Smart in the Twenty first Century written by Min Wild and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Front Flap: Poet, essayist, actor, hymn-writer, wit, magazine editor, transvestite stage performer: Christopher Smart, Georgian don-turned-writer, was all of these. He was, and remains, a mercurial individual, an idiosyncratic yet strangely familiar writer of spiritual heights and material depths. His paradoxical exuberance fascinates scholars of eighteenth-century culture, and this collection of essays, a snapshot of current scholarship from both new and established Smart scholars, offers, among others, literary, theological, dramatic and philosophical perspectives on his writing. Here are new ways of reading familiar Smart works — including the astonishing, devout poem of his incarceration, Jubilate Agno — and unfamiliar ones, such as his translations and writing for children. Unexpected readers of Smart, from Coleridge to a testy anonymous annotator, are examined, and Smart's sacred translations and profane stage presence each find a place. Tom Keymer's re-evaluating afterword finds the quality of “betweenness” in Smart's work: between eras, between genres, between forms, Smart's vitality demands reassessment for each new generation of readers. Contributors: Karina Williamson, Min Wild, Rosalind Powell, Fraser Easton, Clement Hawes, William E. Levine, Noel Chevalier, Lori A. Branch, Daniel J. Ennis, Chris Mounsey, Debbie Welham, Tom Keymer. Back Flap: The editors Min Wild's monograph Christopher Smartand Satire on Smart's Midwife, was published in 2008, and various articles and reviews of a Smartian bent have followed. Her interest in that eighteenth-century favorite, the literary mode of prosopopoeia, has led her to investigate the personification of words, texts and literary modes themselves. She lectures in eighteenth-century literature and theory at Plymouth University, UK, and reviews in the Times Literary Supplement and elsewhere. Noel Chevalier is Associate Professor of English at Luther College, University of Regina, Canada. He has published articles on Jubilate Agno and on Smart’s challenge to “legitimate” playhouses in Mrs. Midnight’sOratory. Although his specialty lies in the eighteenth century, his teaching and research cover a diverse range of topics, from literary responses to the Bible, to the roots of globalization, to literary representations of science and scientists. He has helped create two interdisciplinary programs at Luther: one which addresses literature for students in the sciences, and one which explores the philosophical, political, economic, and cultural contexts of globalization. Jacket illustration: "Amaryllis sarniensis or Guernsey Amaryllis," from William Curtis, The Botanical Magazine; or, Flower-GardenDisplayed, Vol. IX. No. 294. London, 1795.

Book The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart  Volume I  Jubilate Agno

Download or read book The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart Volume I Jubilate Agno written by Christopher Smart and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1980-11-27 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Poems  of the Late Christopher Smart      Consisting of His Prize Poems  Odes  Sonnets  and Fables  Latin and English Translations

Download or read book The Poems of the Late Christopher Smart Consisting of His Prize Poems Odes Sonnets and Fables Latin and English Translations written by Christopher Smart and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Poems of the Late Christopher Smart  M A   Fellow of Pembroke College  Cambridge  Consisting of His Prize Poems  Odes  Sonnets  and Fables  Latin and English Translations     to which is Prefixed  an Account of His Life and Writings Never Before Published  In Two Volumes

Download or read book The Poems of the Late Christopher Smart M A Fellow of Pembroke College Cambridge Consisting of His Prize Poems Odes Sonnets and Fables Latin and English Translations to which is Prefixed an Account of His Life and Writings Never Before Published In Two Volumes written by Christopher Smart and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Poems

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  • Author : Christopher Smart
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  • Release : 1791
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Download or read book The Poems written by Christopher Smart and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book 1650 1850

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  • Author : Kevin L. Cope
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2020-02-14
  • ISBN : 1684481724
  • Pages : 323 pages

Download or read book 1650 1850 written by Kevin L. Cope and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1650-1850 publishes essays and reviews from and about a wide range of academic disciplines literature, philosophy, art history, history, religion, and science. Interdisciplinary in scope and approach, 1650-1850 emphasizes aesthetic manifestations and applications of ideas, and encourages studies that move between the arts and the sciences.

Book Reading 1759

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  • Author : Shaun Regan
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2013
  • ISBN : 1611484782
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Reading 1759 written by Shaun Regan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British "year of victories" during the Seven Years' War, 1759 was also an important year in the histories of fiction, philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics. Reading 1759 is the first book to examine together the range of works written and published during this crucial year. Offering broad coverage of the year's work in writing, these essays examine key works by Johnson, Voltaire, Sterne, Adam Smith, Edward Young, Sarah Fielding, and Christopher Smart, along with such group projects as the Encyclop die and the literary review journals of the mid-eighteenth century. Organized around a cluster of key topics, the volume reflects the concerns most important to writers themselves in 1759. This was a year of the new and the modern, as writers addressed current issues of empire and ethical conduct, forged new forms of creative expression, and grappled with the nature of originality itself. Texts written and published in 1759 confronted the history of Western colonialism, the problem of prostitution in a civilized society, and the limitations of linguistic expression. Philosophical issues were also important in 1759, not least the thorny question of causation; while, in France, state censorship challenged the Encyclop die, the central Enlightenment project. Taking into its purview such texts and intellectual developments, Reading 1759 puts the literary culture of this singular, and singularly important, year on the scholarly map. In the process, the volume also provides a self-reflective contribution to the growing body of "annualized" studies that focus on the literary output of specific years.

Book Cultivating Peace

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  • Author : Melissa Schoenberger
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2019-05-17
  • ISBN : 1684480477
  • Pages : 189 pages

Download or read book Cultivating Peace written by Melissa Schoenberger and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Virgil, who depicted a farmer's scythe suddenly recast as a sword, the poets discussed here imagine states of peace and war to be fundamentally and materially linked. In distinct ways, they dismantle the dream of the golden age renewed, proposing instead that peace must be sustained by constant labor.

Book Variations on the Canon

Download or read book Variations on the Canon written by Robert Curry and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masterful essays honoring the great pianist and critic Charles Rosen, on masterpieces from Bach and Beethoven to Chopin, Verdi, and Stockhausen. Charles Rosen, the pianist and man of letters, is perhaps the single most influential writer on music of the past half-century. While Rosen's vast range as a writer and performer is encyclopedic, it has focused particularly on theliving "canonical" repertory extending from Bach to Boulez. Inspired in its liveliness and variety of critical approaches by Charles Rosen's challenging work, Variations on the Canon offers original essays by some of the world's most eminent musical scholars. Contributors address such issues as style and compositional technique, genre, influence and modeling, and reception history; develop insights afforded by close examination of compositional sketches; and consider what language and metaphors might most meaningfully convey insights into music. However diverse the modes of inquiry, each essay sheds new light on the works of those composers posterity has deemed central to the modern Western musical tradition. Contributors: Pierre Boulez, Scott Burnham, Elliott Carter, Robert Curry, Walter Frisch, David Gable, Philip Gossett, Jeffrey Kallberg, Joseph Kerman, Richard Kramer, William Kinderman, Lewis Lockwood, Sir Charles Mackerras, Robert L. Marshall, Robert P. Morgan, Charles Rosen, Julian Rushton, David Schulenberg, László Somfai, Leo Treitler, James Webster, and Robert Winter. Robert Curry is principalof the Conservatorium High School and honorary senior lecturer in the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Sydney; David Gable is Assistant Professor of Music at Clark-Atlanta University; Robert L. Marshall is Louis, Frances, and Jeffrey Sachar Professor Emeritus of Music at Brandeis University.