On this day 1722 Christopher Smart was born as a premature baby. He suffered from delicate health all his life. Most famous for his religious poetry, in particular his "A Song to David," Smart wrote one of the strangest (I think) books in the language, the Jubilate Agno. "Jubilate" is the plural imperative "rejoice," and "agno" the ablative of "lamb."
He was apparently a bright and likeable
Published on April 11, 2012 07:07