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[edit] Events
- Starting this year, Christopher Smart is confined in St. Luke's Hospital, an asylum, after developing a religious mania. Among other things, he had been stopping strangers in Hyde Park and asking them to kneel down and pray for him. Samuel Johnson visited him and thought that he ought to have been at large. He once said, "I'd as lief pray with Kit Smart as anyone else." During Smart's confinement he conceived the idea of the poem, A Song to David.
[edit] Works published
- John Warton, Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope
[edit] Births
- Edward Rushton
- Jane Cave (by this year)
[edit] Deaths
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