Asylum confinement of Christopher Smart

Half length and dark portrait of a serious and slightly plump man wearing a black academic gown with white collar, ruffled cuff, and a large mortarboard.
Christopher Smart

Say ingles a managsulat Christopher Smart (1722–1771) sikatoy nipriso ed mental asylum manlupud Mayo 1757 anggad Enero 1763. Si Smart so inawat ed St. Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, Upper Moorfields, London, nen 6 Mayo 1757. Sikatoy inawit diman na katulangan ton si John Newbery, anggaman nayarin sikatoy nipriso ed sakey a pribadon ospital parad saray buang. Legan a walad St. Luke's et insulat to so Jubilate Agno tan A Song to David, saray anlong ya ipapasen a sankamaongan a gawa to. Anggaman dakel ed saray kapanaonan to so mipakna a si Smart et "sintinsiaan", nanduruma iray salaysay nipaakar ed kipapasen to tan saray nansumpalan na satan, tan walaray maniisip a sikatoy agmatunong.

Si Smart et "agnasarag a paabigen" legan a walad St. Luke, tan sanen naupot so pundo parad pangasikaso ed sikato et inyalis ed Mr. Say asylum nen Potter, Bethnal Green. Say amta tayo labat nipaakar ed impanpriso to et sikatoy nansulat na anlong. Say inka-isolado nen Smart so amakiwas ed sikaton ikaindan iray anlong na anlong nen koma-18 a siglo a nankabaliksan na apalabas a kimey to tan mansulat na relihyoson anlong a singa say Jubilate Agno ("Manliket ed Kordero"). Ipapanengneng na saray anlong to a labay ton "naliktar a tampol", tan posiblin say panag-usisa ed sarili ya walad saray anlong to et pakapatnagan na ebanghelisyal a Inkakristiano.

Saray kritiko ed bandad sampot na koma-18 a siglo et inisip dan say inkabulok nen Smart so angiter ed sikara na rason pian ibaliwala so A Song to David to, balet diad tinmumbok a siglo et inisip nen Robert Browning tan saray kapanaon to ya say kipapasen to so lapuan na inkasilib to. Diad koma-20 a siglo, sanen adiskobre lamet so Jubilate Agno (agni nipalapag anggad 1939), saray kritiko et ninonot da lamet so kaso nen Smart tan sikatoy impasen dan sakey a rebolusyonaryo a managsulat, say posiblin puntirya na plano na katulangan to, sakey ya publisher, pian sikato so patundaen.


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