Front Flap Poet essayist actor hymnwriter wit magazine editor transvestite stage performer Christopher Smart Georgian donturnedwriter was all of these. He was and remains a mercurial individual an idiosyncratic yet strangely familiar writer of spiritual heights and material depths. His paradoxical exuberance fascinates scholars of eighteenthcentury culture and this collection of essays a snapshot of current scholarship from both new and established Smart scholars offers among others literary