Talk by Douglas Grant
It was Dr. Johnson who said that he would as lief pray with Kit Smart as anyone else.' New light is thrown on Smart's poetry by W. H. Bond 's recently published edition of Jubilate Agno which reveals that this apparently mad poem has in fact an overriding poetic logic: the poem has the antiphonal or responsive character of Hebrew poetry.
The talk is followed by a reading from Jubilate Agno by Hugh Burden and Felix Felton