Clement Hawes

A curious but useful collection of interpretive essays on one of the most vexing but endlessly rewarding English poets. Remarkably hard to find in the used trade. The essay by William Kumbier is by itself worth the price of the book. Incidentally, this is Exhibit "A" under the heading, "You can't judge a book by its cover". The dust-jacket art is simply ugly and irrelevant. Actually, while we're at it, the title itself is pretty misleading, as neither the editor not the various contributors accomplishes the well-nigh impossible feat of transforming Smart into a figure of the Enlightenment, at-least as most people might define that, say in terms of Voltaire, Hume, Beccaria, or any of those folks.… (más)