The Annotated Letters of Christopher Smart Christian P. Potholm embraced by a number of

embraced by a number of countries

and audiences on both sides

which were influential in the development of the prose poem

Taking in the beautiful coast with its immense

and adaptive skills

The Annotated Letters of Christopher Smart Christian P. Potholm embraced by a number ofThe only collection of all known letters of Christopher Smart provides the best psychological explanation to date of that complex and elusive eighteenth century poet. The significant characteristics that distinguish Smart's prose letters from his poetry, Betty Rizzo and Robert Mahony note, are that his letters were requests for assistance while his verses were bequests, gifts in which he set great store. Indeed, it was Smart's lifelong conviction that