THE COLLECTED POEMS OF CHRISTOPHER SMART Norman Callan Volume 2 HC DJ 1967

Description: The Muses' LibraryThe Collected Poems of CHRISTOPHER SMARTVolume TwoEdited, with an introduction and critical remarks by NORMAN CALLAN, M.A. _________________ Hardcover with dust jacket; 635 pages; Size Approx. 4 X 6 3/4.Published by Harvard University Press; Copyright 1949; Reprinted 1967.Details: "The life of Christopher Smart has an attraction for the curioso of literature. There is the early romance with Anne Vane, his secret marriage, eighteenth-century Cambridge life, the intrigues of Grub Street, and, finally, insanity and confinement in an asylum. Smart remains a strange, enigmatic figure, repulsive or attractive according to the temperament of the investigator. His poetry is not easy to disentangle from his character--egocentric, given to exhibitionism, childish, oscillating between the extremes of self-belittlement and self-glorification; but he has his own claim to fame. Few other poets match him in directness of expression. He is a poet with the eye of a painter, developed in an unusually high degree. He has the stereoscopic vision which makes the object leap to the eye, the painter's sense of physical texture and his skill in composing a picture. Then again, there is his versatility. He practised almost every kind of poetry and gave to each kind his own personal inflection. It has been the aim of this edition to present as complete a text as possible in the way that Smart himself would have seen it and, in giving some account of the poet's life, to like his poetry with it." (from the dust jacket flap) The book has a dark blue hard cover binding with gilt lettering on the spine; several small illustrations in black and white in the section of religious and devotional poems. A fine addition for your bookshelf!Condition: This is an ex-library book with all of the usual attachments and markings. 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