Christopher Smart���s Jubilate Agno ��� Edited and Introduced by R J Dent

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Christopher Smart��s Jubilate Agno �� Edited and Introduced by R J Dent

��There is no poem in English poetry that serves as a precursor to Jubilate Agno.�� (Jeremy Reed)��

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After many years, Christopher Smart��s bold, eccentric, powerful and moving epic poem Jubilate Agno is finally available to readers in a brand new, accessible edition.

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Jubilate Agno is a vast free-form poem written between 1759 and 1763, during Smart��s confinement for insanity in St. Luke��s Hospital, Bethnal Green, London. The poem was first published in 1939, under the title Rejoice in the Lamb: A Song from Bedlam, edited by W. F. Stead from Smart��s manuscript, which Stead had discovered in a private library.

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Jubilate Agno is an important example of eighteenth-century free verse that has been unavailable to readers of poetry for many years. It is an obvious precursor to T.S. Eliot��s The Waste Land and to Allan Ginsberg��s Howl.

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This brand new edition of Christopher Smart��s Jubilate Agno is edited and introduced by R J Dent.

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Jubilate Agno is available from Amazon.co.uk:

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jubilate-Agno-Edited-Introduced-Dent-ebook/dp/B00S3E2DPU/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

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and from Amazon.com:

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http://www.amazon.com/Jubilate-Agno-Edited-Introduced-Dent-ebook/dp/B00S3E2DPU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1421092501&sr=8-3&keywords=jubilate+agno

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Details of R J Dents novels, short stories, poems, essays and translations can be found at www.rjdent.com