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Born in April 17, 1722 / Died in May 20, 1771 / United Kingdom / English

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  • G. J. Gray, "A Bibliography of the Writings of Christopher Smart, with Biographical References," Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, 6 (1903): 269-305.
  • Robert Mahony and Betty W. Rizzo, Christopher Smart: An Annotated Bibliography 1743-1983 (New York: Garland, 1984).
  • Christopher Hunter, "The Life of Christopher Smart," in The Poems, of the Late Christopher Smart, M.A., 2 volumes (Reading: Printed and sold by Smart and Cowslade; and sold by F. Power and Co., London, 1791), I: v-xliii.
  • K. A. McKenzie, Christopher Smart, sa vie et ses oeuvres (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1925).
  • Edward G. Ainsworth and Charles E. Noyes, Christopher Smart, a Biographical and Critical Study (Columbia: University of Missouri, 1943).
  • Christopher Devlin, Poor Kit Smart (London: HartDavis, 1961).
  • Arthur Sherbo, Christopher Smart, Scholar of the University (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1967).
  • Francis D. Adams, "Jubilate Agno and the 'Theme of Gratitude,'" Papers on Language and Literature, 3 (Summer 1967): 195-209.
  • Frances E. Anderson, Christopher Smart (New York: Twayne, 1974).
  • James Boswell, Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, Together with Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Dairy of a Journey into North Wales, 6 volumes, edited by George Birkbeck Hill, revised by L. F. Powell (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934-1964).
  • Roland B. Botting, "Christopher Smart in London," Research Studies of the State College of Washington, 7 (March 1939): 3-54.
  • Russell Brain, "Christopher Smart: The Flea That Became an Eagle," in his Some Reflections on Genius and Other Essays (London: Pitman, 1960), pp. 113-122.
  • Frances Burney, The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney, 2 volumes, edited by Lars E. Troide (Oxford & New York: Clarendon Press, 1987-1988).
  • John Butt, The Mid-Eighteenth Century, edited and completed by Geoffrey Carnall, volume 9 of The Oxford History of English Literature (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979).
  • T. Hall Caine, Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London: Stock, 1882; Boston: Roberts, 1883), pp. 194-195.
  • John Chalker, "The Formal Georgic: Philips, Dyer, Smart, Grainger," in his The English Georgic (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1969), pp. 34-65.
  • Gordon Claridge, Ruth Pryor, and Gwen Watkins, "The Powers of Night: Christopher Smart," in their Sounds from the Bell Jar: Ten Psychotic Authors (London: Macmillan, 1990), pp. 71-87.
  • Frances Burney d'Arblay, Memoirs of Doctor Burney, Arranged from His Own Manuscripts, from Family Papers, and from Personal Recollections, volume 1 (London: Moxon, 1832), pp. 279-281.
  • Donald Davie, "Christopher Smart: Some Neglected Poems," Eighteenth-Century Studies, 3 (Winter 1969): 242-264.
  • Davie, "Christopher Smart's Hymns," P. N. Review, 17 (November-December 1990): 16-20.
  • Moira Dearnley, The Poetry of Christopher Smart (London: Routledge, 1968).
  • Christopher M. Dennis, "A Structural Conceit in Smart's Song to David," Review of English Studies, new series 29 (August 1978): 257-266.
  • Thomas F. Dillingham, "'Blest Light: Christopher Smart's Myth of David," in The David Myth in Western Literature, edited by Raymond-Jean Frontain and Jan Wojcik (West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 1980), pp. 120-133.
  • Allan J. Gedalof, "The Rise and Fall of Smart's David," Philological Quarterly, 60 (Summer 1981): 369-386.
  • Gedalof, "Smart's Poetics in Jubilate Agno," English Studies in Canada, 5 (Fall 1979): 262-274.
  • Edmund Gosse, "Christopher Smart," Cambridge Review, 8 (8 June 1887): 366-368.
  • Donald J. Greene, "Smart, Berkeley, the Scientists and the Poets," Journal of the History of Ideas, 14 (June 1953): 327-352.
  • Geoffrey Grigson, Christopher Smart, Writers and Their Work, no. 136 (London: Longmans, Green, 1961).
  • Harriet Guest, A Form of Words: The Religious Poetry of Christopher Smart (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989).
  • Geoffrey H. Hartman, "Christopher Smart's Magnificat: Toward a Theory of Representation," Journal of English Literary History, 41 (Fall 1974): 429-454.
  • A. D. Hope, "The Apocalypse of Christopher Smart," in Studies in the Eighteenth Century, edited by R. F. Brissenden (Canberra: Australian National University Press, 1968), pp. 269-284.
  • Albert J. Kuhn, "Christopher Smart: The Poet as Patriot of the Lord," Journal of English Literary History, 30 (June 1963): 121-136.
  • William A. Kumbier, "Sound and Signification in Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 24 (Fall 1982): 293-312.
  • David B. Morris, The Religious Sublime: Christian Poetry and Critical Tradition in Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1972).
  • Claude Rawson, "Christopher Smart," in his Order from Confusion Sprung (London: Allen & Unwin, 1985), pp. 372-380.
  • Marie Roberts, "Christopher Smart," in her British Poets and Secret Societies (London: Croom Helm, 1986), pp. 10-51.
  • Robert D. Saltz, "Reason and Madness: Christopher Smart's Poetic Development," Southern Humanities Review, 4 (Winter 1970): 57-68.
  • Patricia Meyer Spacks, "Christopher Smart: The Mystique of Vision," in her The Poetry of Vision: Five Eighteenth-Century Poets (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967), pp. 119-164.
  • James Stephen, The Memoirs of James Stephen: Written by Himself for the Use of His Children, edited by Merle M. Bevington (London: Hogarth Press, 1954), pp. 89-90.
  • Robert Surtees, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, volume 4 (London: Printed by and for J. B. Nichols and Son, and Mrs. Andrews, Durham, 1840), pp. 142-144.
  • R. C. Tennant, "Christopher Smart and The Whole Duty of Man," Eighteenth-Century Studies, 13 (Fall 1979): 63-78.
  • Hester Lynch Thrale, Thraliana: The Diary of Mrs. Hester Lynch Thrale (Later Mrs. Piozzi) 1776-1809, 2 volumes, edited by Katharine C. Balderston (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1942).
  • Arthur Tillotson, ed., The Percy Letters: The Correspondence of Thomas Percy & Edmond Malone (Baton Rouge: Louisiana University Press, 1944), pp. 37-38.
  • Paget Toynbee and Leonard Whibley, eds., Correspondence of Thomas Gray, revised by H. W. Starr, 3 volumes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971).
  • Marcus Walsh, "A Cambridge College Library in the Eighteenth Century: Christopher Smart's Borrowings at Pembroke," Library, sixth series 12 (March 1990): 34-49.
  • Jean Wilkinson, "Three Sets of Religious Poems," Huntington Library Quarterly, 36 (May 1973): 203-226.
  • Karina Williamson, "Christopher Smart's Hymns and Spiritual Songs," Philological Quarterly, 38 (October 1959): 413-424.
  • Williamson, "Smart's Principia: Science and Anti-Science in Jubilate Agno," Review of English Studies, new series 30 (November 1979): 409-422.