In the first full-length study of Christopher Smart s translations and the place and function of translation in Smart s poetry, Rosalind Powell proposes a new approach to understanding the relationship between Smart s poetics and his practice. Drawing on translation theory from the early modern period to the present day, this book addresses Smart's translations of Horace, Phaedrus and the Psalms alongside the better-known religious works such as Jubilate Agno and A Song to David. Five recurrent threads run throughout Powell s study: the effect of translation on the identity of a narrative...