Middlebrook, Diane Wood. Anne Sexton: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
361
Christopher Smart
Standard Name: Smart, Christopher
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Sexton | A number of poems here are grouped in series, the centrepiece being The Furies (which, she said, was the reason that she decided not to wait but to publish the collection in her lifetime). |
| Literary responses | Mary Leapor | This volume attracted attention from Samuel Richardson
, Christopher Smart
, and the young William Cowper
, as well as from its chief promoters, John Duncombe
and Susanna Highmore
. Rizzo, Betty. “Molly Leapor: An Anxiety for Influence”. The Age of Johnson, edited by Paul J. Korshin, Vol. 4 , 1991, pp. 313-43. 327-8 |
| Literary responses | Mary Leapor | The emphasis placed on ML
by Roger Lonsdale
in his revolutionary Eighteenth-Century Women Poets, 1989, was welcomed by reviewers. Leapor, Mary. “Introduction”. Poems, edited by Ann Messenger and Richard Greene, 2003. |
| Textual Features | Robert Southey | Against the trend of the times, RS
aimed for historical interest rather than literary canonicity, compiling in his Specimens of the Later English Poets a collection of representative voices rather than a garland: The taste... |
| Textual Features | Seamus Heaney | The Rattle Bag, arranged not by date, or theme, or even alphabetically by author, but alphabetically by title, aims at and achieves a happy and fertile randomness, gathering chips of brilliance from all times... |
| Textual Features | Delarivier Manley | It presents a report on the state of the world, or at least the nation, by the goddess Astrea or Justice, who in classical myth fled to heaven at the end of the Golden Age... |
| Textual Production | Ruth Pitter | In 1936 RP
and Michael Head
had published The Matron Cat's Song, for which she wrote the lyric and he the music. (In 1972 Beryl Price
published musical settings for A Cycle of Cats... |
Timeline
16 October 1750-April 1753: Christopher Smart and John Newbery, under...
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16 October 1750-April 1753
Christopher Smart
and John Newbery
, under the persona of Mary Midnight, issued a periodical entitled The Midwife; or, Old Woman's Magazine; they acknowledge the influence of Delarivier Manley
.
Prescott, Sarah, and Jane Spencer. “Prattling, tattling and knowing everything: public authority and the female editorial persona in the early essay-periodical”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2000, pp. 43-57. 43
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
249n56, 250
3 December 1751: Christopher Smart, as Mrs Mary Midnight,...
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3 December 1751
Christopher Smart
, as Mrs Mary Midnight, opened his vaudeville and satire act at the Castle Tavern, an act Horace Walpole
called the lowest buffoonery in the world.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968, 5 vols.
4: 257, 276-7, 313
By June 1752: Christopher Smart published his first collection,...
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By June 1752
Christopher Smart
published his first collection, Poems on Several Occasions.
Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers.
22 (1752): 291
1758-63: Christopher Smart worked on his unfinished,...
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1758-63
Christopher Smart
worked on his unfinished, unpublished prose-poem or liturgy poem Jubilate Agno.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Sixth edition, Oxford University Press, 2000.
9 April 1763: Christopher Smart published A Song to Da...
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9 April 1763
Christopher Smart
published A Song to David.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
15 (1763): 324
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
9 April 2009
Christmas 1819: William Wordsworth presented Lady Mary Lowther...
Women writers item
Christmas 1819
William Wordsworth
presented Lady Mary Lowther
with a little manuscript volume of poems: those by women were mostly copied from the pages of Poems by Eminent Ladies.
Lavoie, Chantel Michelle. Poems by Eminent Ladies: A Study of an Eighteenth-Century Anthology. University of Toronto, 1999.
288
Wordsworth, William, and Anne Finch. Poems and Extracts Chosen by William Wordsworth for an Album presented to Lady Mary Lowther, Christmas 1819. Editor Littledale, Harold, H. Frowde, 1905.
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