The Collected Poems Of Christopher Smart

A lovely two volume set of 18th century poet Christopher Smart's works, in the original unclipped dust wrappers with a frontispiece. A lovely 2 volume set of the poetry of Christopher Smart, edited, with an introduction and critical comments by Norman Callan.The second impressions of the works, first published in 1949.In publisher's original blue cloth bindings. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Volume I includes a frontispiece.These works showcase the poetry of 18th century English poet Christopher Smart, a major contributor to two popular magazines, The Midwife and The Student. He was a friend to cultural icons such as Samuel Johnson and Henry Fielding, and was widely known throughout London.Smart, a high church Anglican, was infamous for his pseudonymous midwife 'Mrs. Mary Midnight' and for widespread accounts of his years confined in a mental asylum by his father-in-law, due to Smart's supposed religious mania.Although his poetry is primarily religious, it includes themes such as theories on nature and his promotion of English nationalism. In publisher's original cloth bindings. In the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, very smart. Light shelf wear to heads and tails of spines. Marks to front board of Volume II. Dust wrappers are smart. Light shelf wear to extremities, with subtly sunning to spines. Slight damp staining to spines. Small closed tear to head of spine of Volume I wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed.…