"As when the greedy fowler's snare / The birds by providence elude, / Our souls are rescu'd from despair, / And their free flight renew'd."
— Smart, Christopher (1722-1771)
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Dryden Leach
Date
1765
Metaphor
"As when the greedy fowler's snare / The birds by providence elude, / Our souls are rescu'd from despair, / And their free flight renew'd."
Metaphor in Context
As when the greedy fowler's snare
The birds by providence elude,
Our souls are rescu'd from despair,
And their free flight renew'd.
The birds by providence elude,
Our souls are rescu'd from despair,
And their free flight renew'd.
Provenance
Searching "soul" and "bird" in HDIS (Poetry)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1765).
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 also A Translation of the Psalms of David, Attempted in the Spirit of Christianity, and Adapted to the Divine Service. By Christopher Smart, A. M. Some Time Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and Scholar of the University. (London: Printed by Dryden Leach, for the author; and sold by C. Bathhurst in Fleet-Street; and W. Flexney, at Gray’s Inn Gate; and T. Merril, at Cambridge, 1765). <Link to ESTC>
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 also A Translation of the Psalms of David, Attempted in the Spirit of Christianity, and Adapted to the Divine Service. By Christopher Smart, A. M. Some Time Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and Scholar of the University. (London: Printed by Dryden Leach, for the author; and sold by C. Bathhurst in Fleet-Street; and W. Flexney, at Gray’s Inn Gate; and T. Merril, at Cambridge, 1765). <Link to ESTC>
Reading in Katrina Williamson and Marcus Walsh, eds., Christopher Smart: Selected Poems (New York: Penguin Books, 1990).
Date of Entry
04/27/2012
Date of Review
06/04/2013
