Christopher Smart

(1722-1771)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Smart, Christopher, 1722-1771 NRA: Smart Christopher (1722-1771) Poet DNB: Smart, Christopher (1722-1771), poet LBT ID: ChSmart1771 VIAF ID: 51703197 LOC ID: n50051100	B/BAP: 1722-04-11 DIED: 1771-05-20
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English poet, translator, and man of letters; author of A Song to David (1763) written while the poet was confined for madness.
REFERENCES TO Christopher Smart: Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 June 1813 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 2 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1813 Life of Byron: 1821 Found 1: ¶ 19 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 24 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1824 Found 1: ¶ 5