The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart: Volume IV. Miscellaneous Poems, English and Latin
Christopher Smart author Karina Williamson editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:26th Mar '87
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Rose Mary Crawshay Prize 1997, awarded by British Academy
A scholarly edition of poetical works by Christopher Smart. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.This volume contains miscellaneous verse, arranged in chronological order, showing the pattern of Smart`s evolution from both academic and popular roles into a poet dedicated to Christian service.
Indispensable: the editor has reproduced thirty pieces not reprinted since the eighteenth century, has included a section of 'Poems of Uncertain Authorship,' capacious notes to every poem, variant readings at the bottom of the page, and an exhaustive bibliography of secondary sources. * The Scriblerian *
- Winner of Rose Mary Crawshay Prize 1997, awarded by British Academy.
ISBN: 9780198127680
Dimensions: 223mm x 145mm x 33mm
Weight: 784g
552 pages