EPISODE · Feb 28, 2010 · 4 MIN
from "For my Cat Jeoffry" by Christopher Smart
from Focus on Flowers · host Indiana Public Media
Christopher Smart was incarcerated from 1756 to 1763 for a form of religious madness that compelled him to pray constantly, often in the street. During this confinement for religious mania, he wrote the long poem Jubilate Agno (Rejoice in the Lamb) from which our poem today is taken.
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