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	Christopher Smart - LoveToKnow 1911
		CHRISTOPHER SMART (1722-1771), English poet, son of Peter Smart, of an old north country family, was born at Shipbourne, Kent, on the 11th of April 1722.
		Christopher Smart received his first schooling at Maidstone, and then at the grammar school of Durham.
		In 1751 Smart had shown symptoms of mental aberration, which developed into religious mania, and between 1756 and 1758 he was in an asylum.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Christopher_Smart (871 words)

	The Academy of American Poets - Christopher Smart
		Christopher Smart was born in 1722 in Shipbourne, Kent, England.
		Smart attended the Durham School and was later educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, where he was well known for his Latin verses.
		Smart is best known for A Song to David (1763), which praises the author of the Psalms as an archetype of the Divine poet.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/282 (499 words)

	Christopher Smart, "on his cat Jeoffrey," from Jubilate Agno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Christopher Smart, "on his cat Jeoffrey" from Jubilate Agno (1762), lns.
		Christopher Smart, who was tossed in the madhouse for his incessant praying (in the street, for the most part), constantly asks what creativity is, what rationality and irrationality are.
		Smart's "madness" is actually grounded in his acute sensibilious response to the physical world: the "mad" Smart is very much a part of this world, even as he authorizes himself as a prophetic interpretor of the universe.
	www.engl.virginia.edu /enec981/dictionary/24smartM1.html (449 words)

	Insolent Women and Crest-fallen Men: Christopher Smart,The Midwife, and Literary Travestism - Ross King
		As a weapon of defence the horn represents an instrument of masculine control, implying what elsewhere in the text Smart calls 'the three POINTS of manhood, of the pen, of the sword, and of chivalry' (B.129): the horn is `instrumental', he writes, `in subjecting the woman' (C.140).
		Smart is attempting during this time to establish a serious literary reputation for himself by publishing imitations of classical verse, but, despite various learned allusions in the orations, these popular entertainments are enthusiastically plebeian, dedicated to the amusement of the rabble.
		85), in Smart's case the anxiety of authorship and the concomitant unruly double result from inverted circumstances, that is, the male author's perceived confinement of himself within the increasingly feminized and feminizing sphere of the capitalist marketplace.
	www.arts.gla.ac.uk /SESLL/STELLA/COMET/glasgrev/issue2/king.htm (4551 words)

	[minstrels] Jubilate Agno -- Christopher Smart
		Christopher Smart is one such: today's extraordinary poem was written while he was confined to an insane asylum in Bethnal Green, yet it shows none of the effects one might expect from such a conception.
		In 1756 Smart was dangerously ill, and a year later he was admitted to a hospital for the insane; he spent the years 1759-63 in a private home for the insane in Bethnal Green.
		Smart wrote the poem during the long period of restraint and confinement to a madhouse (there is no evidence that he was in Bedlam) which extended from 1756 to 1763.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/661.html (1898 words)

	Christopher Smart - Poems and Biography by PoetryConnection.net
		Christopher Smart (April 11, 1722 - May 21, 1771), English poet, son of Peter Smart, of an old north country family, was born at Shipbourne, Kent.
		Smart was wont to accost passers-by in Hyde Park and demand that they kneel down and pray for him, and between 1756 and 1758 he was in St. Luke's Hospital, an asylum.
		Christopher Smart is one of Robert Brownings subjects in The Parleyings with Certain Peoplr (1887).
	www.poetryconnection.net /poets/Christopher_Smart (1057 words)

	Christopher Smart, Samuel Johnson, Allen Ginsberg - Kit Smart, Samuel Johnson, Allen Ginsberg, and other stories
		Though a minor poet, Smart was friendly to those in Samuel Johnson's circle, and notorious to many for his enthusiastic public displays of "religious mania," such as falling to his knees in the streets to pray and enthusiastically inviting others to join him.
		Smart spent years in mental institutions for such habits, and other years in debtors' prison when he could not make his hack-writing career work.
		Recent biographers doubt that Smart's madness was severe, or that the "clown of God" â“ the subtitle of Chris Mounsey's recent biography -- deserved the treatment he received...
	www.todayinliterature.com /today.asp?Search_Date=4/6/2004 (187 words)

	Smart, Christopher - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		He is also known for his idiosyncratic and often anthologized paean to his cat, Jeoffry, from the surviving fragments of his Jubilate Agno, which was also written during his confinement but not published in a definitive edition until 1954.
		Sacramental time: John Jackson, Christopher smart, and the reform of the calendar.(Critical Essay)
		Christopher Smart's Old Woman's Oratory and the patent theatres: legitimacy, transgression, and "rational Mirth".
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-smart-ch.html (239 words)

	Smart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Smart cliche, a branding cliche, e.g., smart card, smartphone, smart growth
		Smart Package Manager, a Package management software tool.
		SMART Technologies Inc., a company providing group collaboration tools.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Smart (157 words)

	Smart Growth: Environmental Protection Agency
		Thirty-two national organizations, representing the diverse interests of the SGN, have approved "This Is Smart Growth." The publication describes how, when done well, development can help create more economic opportunities, build great places where people want to live and visit, preserve the qualities people love about their communities, and protect environmental resources.
		The city of Chicago is a smart growth and brownfields grantee.
		Both primers are part of the ongoing series by ICMA and the Smart Growth Network, and describe concrete techniques of putting the ten smart growth principles into practice.
	www.epa.gov /smartgrowth (1083 words)

	smart card - Columbia Encyclopedia article about smart card (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-4.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Developed in 1973 by the Frenchman Roland Marino, the smart card was not introduced commercially until 1981, when the French state telephone system adopted it as an integral part of its phonecard network.
		As memory capacity, computing power, and data encryption capabilities of the microprocessor increase, smart cards are envisioned as replacing such commonplace items as cash, airline and theater tickets, credit and debit cards, toll tokens, medical records, and keys.
		Suggested government use of a single smart card to replace driver's licenses, passports, social security and welfare documentation, and the like has caused a debate concerning the civil liberty implications of such uses of the smart card.
	columbia.thefreedictionary.com.cob-web.org:8888 /smart+card (444 words)

	REEP - Collective Worship - Thankfulness, Christopher Smart
		Find a copy of Christopher Smart's poem called Jubilate Agno ('Rejoice in the Lamb'), or the part of it about his cat Jeoffry which is often printed individually.
		About 20 years after this picture was made, one of the greatest poets of the 18th century, a man called Christopher Smart, was locked up in a mad house.
		Christopher Smart's cat poem could be used as a basis for the pupils' own creative writing on thankfulness.
	www.reep.org /cw/worships/012s_thankfulness.php (983 words)

	Poetry Life and Times, Vallance Review 42, February 2005
		Christopher Smart suffered from alcoholism most of his life, which turned him into a reckless spendthrift, landing him in debtor's prison on more than one occasion.
		Christopher Smart is at pains to demonstrate that his beloved cat, Jeoffry, as blessed a creature as he is, is more inclined to consider himself first before anyone else.
		Smart's is one of affection bordering on worship.
	www.poetrylifeandtimes.com /valrevw42.htm (3902 words)

	Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Christopher Smart wrote a long free-verse manuscript between 1758 and 1763, largely while in a madhouse.
		In 1950, W. Bond noted that some of the surviving "For" pages were dated to match some surviving "Let" pages, and that a sizable clump of "For" lines on those pages referred one-to-one to the corresponding "Let" lines.
		Smart's intentions while writing the manuscript are unknowable, and the manuscript remained unpublished during his lifetime.
	www.pseudopodium.org /repress/jubilate (623 words)

	Poetry: Julia Alvarez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Although Smart was an eighteenth-century British poet, his influence on some contemporary American poets is so significant that the Academy of American Poets has included this page on its site.
		Christopher Smart (1722—1771) was born in Shipbourne, Kent.
		Smart ranks as one of the most respected and influential religious poets in English literature.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/poetry/smart.htm (232 words)

	Poet: Christopher Smart - All poems of Christopher Smart
		Poet: Christopher Smart - All poems of Christopher Smart
		Poet: Christopher Smart - All poems of Christopher
		Free Poetry E-Book: 20 poems of Christopher Smart
	www.poemhunter.com /christopher-smart/poet-6902 (122 words)

	Doc Yoder's Notes: Quotations and Titles
		After declaring his theme, Smart identifies his cat as a divine "servant" (2).
		Christopher Smart devotes part of his poem to his cat.
		If Smart owned only one cat -- "my cat, Jeoffry," (note the commas) -- the phrase would be "non-restrictive," naming that cat, but not restricting the meaning (since no restriction is necessary with only one cat).
	www.ualr.edu /rpyoder/dynquotes.htm (437 words)

	SMART, CHRISTOPHER (17... - Online Information article about SMART, CHRISTOPHER (17... (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Christopher Smart received his first schooling at See also:
		Wharton in 1747, warned him to keep silence about Smart's delinquencies lest they should come to the ears of See also:
		late Christopher Smart (1791) the " Song to David " (pr.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org.cob-web.org:8888 /SIV_SOU/SMART_CHRISTOPHER_1722_1771_.html (1300 words)

	Christopher Smart Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Volume VI of Smart's collected poetry contains the first literary critical edition of his translation of Phaedrus's fables, and the first literary commentary on these fables in English.
		Made in the prodigiously creative years between his release from the madhouse and his death, the translation now emerges as testimony to Smart's tireless creativity and poetic energy, and as a significant contribution to the present...
		The present volume, which contains miscellaneous English and Latin verse, written throughout his career, shows Smart as he appeared to his contemporaries: a brilliant but wayward scholar, who threw away a life of distinction at Cambridge to engage in the raffish world of the London theaters and pleasure gardens.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Christopher_Smart (475 words)

	Johnson on Smart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		My poor friend Smart showed the disturbance of his mind, by falling upon his knees, and saying his prayers in the street, or in any other unusual place.
		Now although, rationally speaking, it is greater madness not to pray at all, than to pray as Smart did, I am afraid there are so many who do not pray, that their understanding is not called in question."
		Concerning this unfortunate poet, Christopher Smart, who was confined in a mad-house, he had, at another time, the following conversation with Dr. Burney.
	www.english.upenn.edu /~jlynch/Courses/95c/Texts/smart.html (230 words)

	Aesthetic Realism Class: 'Poetry is About One LivingThing'
		In this class, he said that what makes for a thing being animated or alive has not been looked at technically enough, and that is what he did, as he looked at poems by Matthew Arnold and Christopher Smart.
		Technically, Smart's poem “is a kind of free verse, but it is musical free verse, and that is what makes it a poem.” Although it was written in the 18th century, it was only discovered, we learned, in 1939.
		I was very glad to be introduced to the poetry of Christopher Smart by the way Mr.
	www.dienes-and-dienes.com /OneLivingThing.html (804 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart: A Poetical Translation of the Fables of Phaedrus: Livres en ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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		This is the first critical edition of Christopher Smart's translation of Phaedrus' fables, and the first literary commentary on these fables in English.
		Smart's versions successfully catch the spirit and humour of the Latin originals.
	www.amazon.fr /Poetical-Works-Christopher-Smart-Translation/dp/0198183607 (275 words)

	Christopher Smart Karina Williamson -The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart A Poetical Translation of the Fables of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Christopher Smart Karina Williamson -The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart A Poetical Translation of the Fables of Phaedrus Vol 6 - Caroline Gray
		The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart A Poetical Translation of the Fables of Phaedrus Vol 6
		1: The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart A Poetical Translation of the Fables of Phaedrus Vol 6.
	www.boook.net /386146_poetical_works_christopher_smart_a_poetical_translation_fables_phaedrus_6.html (78 words)

	Christopher Smart Life Stories, Books, & Links
		Though a minor poet, Smart was friendly to those in Samuel Johnson's circle, notorious to many for his enthusiastic public displays of "religious mania" -- "Song to David" was composed in Mr.
		A scholarly essay examines the roles of men and women in Smart's works, with commentary on the developments in mid-eighteenth century society which influenced the author's views.
		Though a prolonged hymn of praise to God, the poem is infected by a deep sexual bias and dwells at some length, and with much bitterness, on `mischief concerning women', as well as on the causes and effects of this unruliness.
	www.todayinliterature.com /biography/christopher.smart.asp (571 words)

	Two Rivers Press: Christopher Smart: Cat Jeoffrey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Often anthologised, this passage from Christopher Smart’s eccentric 18th century masterpiece Jubilate Agno brims over with the prankish playfulness and sudden ferocity of one of the literary world’s most famous cats.
		Jeoffry’s quick spirit illuminates Smart’s celebratory poem to become an embodiment of spiritual devotion, anticipating William Blake’s ‘Tygerish’ energies in all their glory.
		For he is hated by the hypocrite and miser.
	www.tworiverspress.com /html/cat.html (151 words)

	AllRefer.com - Christopher Smart (English Literature, 1500 To 1799, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Christopher Smart (English Literature, 1500 To 1799, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Christopher Smart, English Literature, 1500 To 1799, Biographies
		More articles from AllRefer Reference on Christopher Smart
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/Smart-Ch.html (218 words)

	Christopher Smart (1722-1771) Jubilate Agno (excerpt)
		Smart wrote this poem during his confinement for insanity, which lasted 7 years (from 1756 - 1763).
		The poem was never published during Smart's lifetime (indeed, it was not published until the 1930's).
		There's nothing in the bible about the Lord commanding Moses to do anything related to cats (line 35).
	www.creekcats.com /pnprice/Jeoffry.html (1068 words)

	Poets' Corner - Christopher Smart - A Song to David
		Poets' Corner - Christopher Smart - A Song to David
		[Editor's Note: This poem was written during Smart's periods of madness between 1757 and 1763; on the basis of this poem, Robert Browning equated Smart's lyric gifts with those of Milton and Keats:
		Smart, solely of such songmen, pierced the screen
	www.theotherpages.org /poems/2000/s/smart51.html (197 words)

	CD Baby: ALLEY KAT: Christopher Smart - The life and times of
		Christopher Smart - The life and times of
		A blend between fiction and non-fiction, Alley Kat’s debut album [Christopher Smart – The life and time of] is a comic book approach to hip-hop in which each song from the beginning to the end reads like a graphic novel.
		With one album under his belt [Christopher Smart – The life and times of] and his second on the way [Tainted Metropolis], it’s obvious that this kat will be around for a while.
	cdbaby.com /cd/alleykat (235 words)

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