Books by Christopher Smart

A scholarly edition of poetical works by Christopher Smart. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

A scholarly edition of poetical works by Christopher Smart. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

A scholarly edition of poetical works by Christopher Smart. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

A scholarly edition of poetical works by Christopher Smart. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.

This is a literary critical edition of Christopher Smart's translation of Phaedrus's fables. Many of the best known Aesopian fables are in fact the work of the Roman poet Phaedrus, a freed slave. Smart's version aims to capture the spirit and humour of the Latin originals.

Published here for the first time since 1767, Christopher Smart's verse translation of Horace was made in the years between his release from the madhouse and his death. The introduction places Smart's methods in the context of 18th-century attitudes to the translation of classical works.