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2: The Language of Flowers. ByTim Jackson
Religious poet Christopher Smart was one of the most celebrated men in 18th-century London society. But his eccentricities led to incarceration in an asylum, where he wrote his diary in the form of a long poem: the extraordinary Jubilate Agno. Smart's biographer Dr Chris Mouncey examines the significance of the poetry, while Tim Jackson dramatises the events surrounding its creation.
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