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´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
"Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk." Poems: poetryfoundation.org/poets/christop…] ✒️ #ChristopherSmart, English actor, playwright, and poet, was #BOTD 11 April 1722. #Poetry #Theatre
‘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: lttr.ai/ARSmi #ACEsupported #poetry #christophersmart #freeverse
O most Mighty, O most Holy, far beyond the seraph’s thought, are you then so mean and lowly as unheeded prophets thought? God all bounteous, all creative, whom our sins could not dissuade, you have come to be a native of the very world you made. (#ChristopherSmart)
The Works of Horace, Translated Literally into English Prose, 1819. ebay.co.uk/itm/1761725016… #rarebooks #poetrytwitter #poems #prose #christophersmart #horace #poetrycommunity
‘Part of the tragedy of Smart’s life is that this poem wasn't published until 1939. It anticipates Romantic and 20thC. poetry and could have influenced them, but it was unknown for 200 years.’ Listen: lttr.ai/AMfkG #ACEsupported #poetry #christophersmart #freeverse
‘There are moments in this poem that seem to me to be spine-tinglingly realistic, almost as if we’ve been presented with an Instagram photo of an 18th-century cat.’ Listen to the episode: lttr.ai/AIAWS #ACEsupported #poetry #christophersmart #freeverse
“As Smart’s description of Jeoffry has 74 lines, we could easily call it ‘74 Ways of Looking at a Cat’.” Listen to the episode: lttr.ai/ADp8Q #ACEsupported #poetry #christophersmart #freeverse
‘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: lttr.ai/ABexe #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: lttr.ai/AA7EG #ACEsupported #poetry #christophersmart
‘If you are a cat lover like me then it’s hard to resist this poem.’ Listen to the episode: lttr.ai/AAr2E #ACEsupported #poetry #christophersmart #freeverse
‘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: lttr.ai/AAcN2 #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: lttr.ai/AAcd4 #ACEsupported #poetry #christophersmart #freeverse
@BorisDralyuk “For every house is incomplete without him and a blessing is lacking in the spirit.” @PParkerWriting #poetry #christophersmart #cats
“Let Nimrod, the mighty hunter, bind a Leopard to the altar, and consecrate his spear to the Lord. Let Ishmael dedicate a Tyger, and give praise for the liberty, in which the Lord has let him at large.” Christopher Smart, born 11 April 1722 #christophersmart #poem #jubilateagno
"Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk." Poems: poetryfoundation.org/poets/christop…] ✒️ #ChristopherSmart, English actor, playwright, and poet, was #BOTD 11 April 1722. #Poetry #Theatre
#Catholic #education #history: #Christmas is a time for the Songs of Angels, Animals, and Men! {#Bach #Mozart #TomásLuisdeVictoria #ChristopherSmart #Handel...} [O magnum mysterium] thecatholicthing.org/2022/12/18/son… via @catholicthing
"Let Hashum bless with the Fly, whose health is the honey of the air, but he feeds upon the thing strangled, and perisheth." #ChristopherSmart, #JubilateAgno (verse A 95, composed c. 1759) @Wordsworthians
"Let Hashum bless with the Fly, whose health is the honey of the air, but he feeds upon the thing strangled, and perisheth." #ChristopherSmart, #JubilateAgno (verse A 95, composed c. 1759) @Wordsworthians
