Christopher Smart was an English poet. He was a major contributor to two popular magazines, The Midwife and The Student, and a friend to influential cultural icons like Samuel Johnson and Henry Fielding. Smart, a high church Anglican, was widely known throughout London.
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Christopher Smart's Pembroke portrait showing a letter sent from Alexander Pope
Title page of The Midwife
Illustration of The Hop-Garden
A caricature of Christopher Smart in Tommy Tagg's book published by John Newbery
A page from the "Let" side of the Jubilate Agno manuscript
A page from the "For" side of the Jubilate Agno manuscript
First page of Abimelech (1768)Writers born in the 1720s 6
About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1722 to 1771 · aged 49
Wikipedia
17 languages
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