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#OnThisDay in 1757, English poet #ChristopherSmart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.🏥 Discover his story👉: https://t.co/MPdTzbF4nP #OTD #PoetryHistory #Literature
"Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk."
Poems: https://t.co/oVQYD8J3up]
✒️ #ChristopherSmart, English actor, playwright, and poet, was #BOTD 11 April 1722. #Poetry #Theatre
![NathanFrancis__'s tweet photo. "Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk."
Poems: https://t.co/oVQYD8J3up]
✒️ #ChristopherSmart, English actor, playwright, and poet, was #BOTD 11 April 1722. #Poetry #Theatre https://t.co/QDlBFC2EYz](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GoNYpYWXIAAEBaG.jpg)
´For I will Consider my Cat Jeoffry’ 🐈
✨new cards in The Blue Bramble Gallery, St Ives
‘For in his morning orisons he loves the sun and the sun loves him’ 🧡💛🌞🐈
- inspired by the poem by Christopher Smart(1763)
#poetry #art #christophersmart #jeoffry #gingercat #felting
‘Smart is saying: “Yea, verily, even this little cat is a divine creature and we can ‘consider’ him, meditate upon him, and see God in him.”’
Listen to the episode: https://t.co/2MIJv32HxP
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‘Why did Smart devote so much space in his poem to a description of his cat? And how did he observe Jeoffry so closely that he was able to write about him in such extraordinary detail?’
Listen to the episode: https://t.co/KihLOLOm0Q
#ACEsupported #poetry #christophersmart
“It’s appropriate to compare Christopher Smart to William Blake, another 18th century poet who was accused of being mad because of religious visions and who also wrote a famous ‘cat’ poem.”
Listen to the episode: https://t.co/nT0xzWFk9s
#ACEsupported #poetry #christophersmart
‘This is one of the most charming passages of poetry in English, and yet there is a sad story behind it.’
Listen to the episode: https://t.co/opNhKhke3t
#ACEsupported #poetry #christophersmart #freeverse
This week on the podcast, @markmcguinness reads and discusses ‘For I will consider my cat Jeoffry’ from Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart.
Listen to the episode: https://t.co/ksg5K093oA
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@BorisDralyuk “For every house is incomplete without him and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.” @PParkerWriting #poetry
#christophersmart #cats
"Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk."
Poems: https://t.co/MgqAmeIzX1]
✒️ #ChristopherSmart, English actor, playwright, and poet, was #BOTD 11 April 1722. #Poetry #Theatre
![NathanFrancis__'s tweet photo. "Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk."
Poems: https://t.co/MgqAmeIzX1]
✒️ #ChristopherSmart, English actor, playwright, and poet, was #BOTD 11 April 1722. #Poetry #Theatre https://t.co/jmP4JsZc8v](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FtY3kHJWAAgleBO.jpg)
"All Dogs Go to Heaven: David Bentley Hart’s Canine Panpsychism" by @WithEdSimon:
https://t.co/d6bBvo187t via @lareviewofbooks Prosody boot camp will discuss #ChristopherSmart's Jubilate Agno with @AlfredNicol & @DanaGioiaPoet. The poem also inspired a recent elegy of mine.
#StSwithun's Day and sweltering heat... perfect for completing a #Christmas #choral piece!
Words by #ChristopherSmart (of #cat #Jeoffry fame.)
https://t.co/8i8DU6GjUw
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Happy 300th b’day #ChristopherSmart, author best cat poem ever, My Cat Jeoffry. Not much on cats in #RANZCP2022 tbh, but go anyway! #seeyouinsydney 15-19 May @RANZCP @AP_RANZCP @angelo_virgona @duskywhalerkate @angelo_virgona @drHelenschultz @SellittoT @SArunogiri @PoetryFound
“Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk.”
✒️ #ChristopherSmart, English poet & journalist, was #BOTD 11 April 1722. #Poetry #Literature
Watch the launch of @PoetryBookSoc Winter Choice Like a Tree, Walking by @VCapildeo with @Padraig_Regan: https://t.co/D24sym2yI3
Two vintage poems (one #ChristopherSmart riff & one that ends in a highly regular #iambic #pentameter stanza) @parisreview from #EricaJong:
https://t.co/r177YVaU0Q
Check out #ChristopherSmart (18thC poet) and his poem: “the mouse is a creature of exceptional valour..”
Not sure either of these cats is a Geoffrey.....
I love the look to camera
#otd 6 May 1757 – English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
#ChristopherSmart #Britishhistory #mentalasylum
It's the birthday of poet #ChristopherSmart, born in Shipbourne, #England (1722-1771), who was convinced he was a prophet. His family put him into an asylum, where he wrote the two poems for which he is best known: #ASongtoDavid (1763) & "Jubilate Agno" (first published in 1938).
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