Authority Cited: Smart [Christopher]
Author name and dates: Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
BKG Bio-tweet: Awards for Oxford poetry; prolific author, magazine contributor; SJ quotes poetry; later confined by Newbery in mental ward
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: four Smart cites were identified in the 1755 Dict. No Smart cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The inaccuracies in two quotations, noted below, indicate that the quotes are perhaps from memory. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, edited by Fleeman, lists Item 431 . . . Smart's Poems 1752, which Greene, in Samuel Johnson's Library, An Annotated Guide, identifies as "The Poems on Several Occasions of Johnson's brilliant and unfortunate friend." A cantata was composed by Benjamin Britten based on a Smart manuscript poem written while in an asylum, Jubilate Agno, discovered about 1939.]
Poems on several occasions. By Christopher Smart, A. M. Fellow of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge, 1752, London, Printed for the author, by W. Strahan; and sold by J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun, in St. Paul's Church-Yard;
Text: Behind him came Health . . . .
The Hilliad: an epic poem : By C. Smart, A.M., Fellow of Pembroke-Hall in the University of Cambridge, ... to which are prefixed, copious prolegomena and notes variorum. ..., 1753 London : Sold by J. Newbery in St. Paul's Churchyard And M. Cooper in Paternoster Row; insolvent;
The Horatian canons of friendship : Being the third satire of the first book of Horace imitated. With two dedications ; the first to that admirable critic, the Rev. Mr. William Warburton, occasioned by his dunciad, and his Shakespeare ; and the second to my good friend the trunk-Maker at the Corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard. By Ebenezer Pentweazle, of truro in the county of Cornwall, Esq. , the Second Edition, 1750 London : Printed for the author, and sold by J. Newbery at the Bible and Sun in St. Paul's Church-Yard; delf/delfe
Dict.: Thus barter honour for a piece of delf: No, not for China's wide domain itself.
Text: Wou'd I forsake him for a piece of delph? No - . . . .
Smart (no work cited);
Author name and dates: Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
BKG Bio-tweet: Awards for Oxford poetry; prolific author, magazine contributor; SJ quotes poetry; later confined by Newbery in mental ward
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: four Smart cites were identified in the 1755 Dict. No Smart cites were identified as added in the 1773 Dict. The inaccuracies in two quotations, noted below, indicate that the quotes are perhaps from memory. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, edited by Fleeman, lists Item 431 . . . Smart's Poems 1752, which Greene, in Samuel Johnson's Library, An Annotated Guide, identifies as "The Poems on Several Occasions of Johnson's brilliant and unfortunate friend." A cantata was composed by Benjamin Britten based on a Smart manuscript poem written while in an asylum, Jubilate Agno, discovered about 1939.]
Poems on several occasions. By Christopher Smart, A. M. Fellow of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge, 1752, London, Printed for the author, by W. Strahan; and sold by J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun, in St. Paul's Church-Yard;
- A MORNING PIECE, OR, An HYMN for the HAY-MAKERS, ODE I; latch; thatch (same quote as latch)
Text: Behind him came Health . . . .
- AN OCCASIONAL PROLOGUE and EPILOGUE TO OTHELLO, > EPILOGUE. Spoken by DESDEMONA; peroration;
The Hilliad: an epic poem : By C. Smart, A.M., Fellow of Pembroke-Hall in the University of Cambridge, ... to which are prefixed, copious prolegomena and notes variorum. ..., 1753 London : Sold by J. Newbery in St. Paul's Churchyard And M. Cooper in Paternoster Row; insolvent;
The Horatian canons of friendship : Being the third satire of the first book of Horace imitated. With two dedications ; the first to that admirable critic, the Rev. Mr. William Warburton, occasioned by his dunciad, and his Shakespeare ; and the second to my good friend the trunk-Maker at the Corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard. By Ebenezer Pentweazle, of truro in the county of Cornwall, Esq. , the Second Edition, 1750 London : Printed for the author, and sold by J. Newbery at the Bible and Sun in St. Paul's Church-Yard; delf/delfe
Dict.: Thus barter honour for a piece of delf: No, not for China's wide domain itself.
Text: Wou'd I forsake him for a piece of delph? No - . . . .
Smart (no work cited);