Asylum confinement of Christopher Smart
The English poet Christopher Smart (1722–1771) was confined to mental asylums from May 1757 until January 1763. Smart was admitted to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, , London, on 6 May 1757. He was taken there by his father-in-law, John Newbery, although he may have been confined in a private madhouse before then. While in St Luke's he wrote Jubilate Agno and A Song to David, the poems considered to be his greatest works. Although many of his contemporaries agreed that Smart was "mad", accounts of his condition and its ramifications varied, and some felt that he had been committed unfairly.
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Asylum confinement of Christopher Smart
The English poet Christopher Smart (1722–1771) was confined to mental asylums from May 1757 until January 1763. Smart was admitted to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, , London, on 6 May 1757. He was taken there by his father-in-law, John Newbery, although he may have been confined in a private madhouse before then. While in St Luke's he wrote Jubilate Agno and A Song to David, the poems considered to be his greatest works. Although many of his contemporaries agreed that Smart was "mad", accounts of his condition and its ramifications varied, and some felt that he had been committed unfairly.
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The English poet Christopher S ...... , a publisher, to silence him.
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For he counteracts the Devil, who is death, by brisking about the life.
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For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electrical skin and glaring eyes.
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For he has the subtlety and hissing of a serpent, which in goodness he suppresses.
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For he keeps the Lord's watch in the night against the adversary.
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For he purrs in thankfulness, when God tells him he's a good Cat.
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For in his morning orisons he loves the sun and the sun loves him.
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Smart's Jubilate Agno, Fragment B Lines 695, 717–726
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O poeta inglês Christopher Sma ...... ue ele havia sido injustiçado.
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Asylum confinement of Christopher Smart
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Confinamento psiquiátrico de Christopher Smart
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