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- Title
Contextualising Accents and Alphabets in the Work of Christopher Smart.
- Authors
Tomalin, Marcus
- Abstract
This article re-examines Christopher Smart's views concerning Greek and Hebrew in the light of several mid eighteenth-century philological treatises which explore the orthographical conventions of ancient languages. In particular, his personal preference for unaccented Greek and unvowelised Hebrew is assessed in the context of contemporaneous discussions of these contentious topics. In addition, some of the more opaque passages in Jubilate Agno, which reflect upon the Hebrew letter Wau, are clarified by demonstrating that, rather than being bafflingly idiosyncratic, Smart's juxtaposition of alphabetical characters and non-alphabetical glyphs was in accordance with standard philological practice in the eighteenth century.
- Subjects
SMART, Christopher, 1722-1771; PHILOLOGY; EIGHTEENTH century; ORTHOGRAPHY &; spelling; HEBREW letters
- Publication
Review of English Studies, 2009, Vol 60, Issue 247, p763
- ISSN
0034-6551
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/res/hgn172