"Is apathy, is heart of steel, / Nor ear to hear, nor sense to feel."
— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Work Title
Date
1752, 1791
Metaphor
"Is apathy, is heart of steel, / Nor ear to hear, nor sense to feel."
Metaphor in Context
Is apathy, is heart of steel,
Nor ear to hear, nor sense to feel,
Life idly inoffensive such a grace,
That it shou'd steal thy name and take thy place?
Nor ear to hear, nor sense to feel,
Life idly inoffensive such a grace,
That it shou'd steal thy name and take thy place?
Categories
Provenance
Searching "heart" and "steel" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
2 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1752, 1791).
Text from The Poems of the Late Christopher Smart ... Consisting of His Prize Poems, Odes, Sonnets, and Fables, Latin and English Translations: Together With Many Original Compositions, Not Included in the Quarto Edition. To Which Is Prefixed, an Account of His Life and Writings, Never Before Published. 2 vols. (London: Printed and Sold by Smart and Cowslade; and sold by F. Power and Co., 1791). See "On Good Nature. Ode V," vol. I, pp. 8-10.
See also "On Good-Nature" in Poems on Several Occasions. By Christopher Smart, A. M. Fellow of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge. (London: Printed for the Author, by W. Strahan; and sold by J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1752), pp. 1-3.
Reading in Katrina Williamson and Marcus Walsh, eds., Christopher Smart: Selected Poems (New York: Penguin Books, 1990).
Text from The Poems of the Late Christopher Smart ... Consisting of His Prize Poems, Odes, Sonnets, and Fables, Latin and English Translations: Together With Many Original Compositions, Not Included in the Quarto Edition. To Which Is Prefixed, an Account of His Life and Writings, Never Before Published. 2 vols. (London: Printed and Sold by Smart and Cowslade; and sold by F. Power and Co., 1791). See "On Good Nature. Ode V," vol. I, pp. 8-10.
See also "On Good-Nature" in Poems on Several Occasions. By Christopher Smart, A. M. Fellow of Pembroke-Hall, Cambridge. (London: Printed for the Author, by W. Strahan; and sold by J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1752), pp. 1-3.
Reading in Katrina Williamson and Marcus Walsh, eds., Christopher Smart: Selected Poems (New York: Penguin Books, 1990).
Date of Entry
06/10/2005
