Chris Mounsey Christopher Smart: fellow of God.

Chris Mounsey Christopher Smart: fellow of God. (The Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture) Cranbury, N J: Bucknell University Pres 2001 Pp 342 $4950 ISBN 0-8387-5483-X

Chris Mounsey's biography of Christopher Smart makes three extraordinary claims: first, that the make easy of Smart's Midwife and aged Woman's Oratory was far more political than previously has been suspected; inferior that a rather dastardly John Newbery was primarily responsible for having Smart committed to a private madhouse; and third, that Christopher Smart was not mad,

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