"Thou [Eagle] type of wit and sense confin'd, / Cramp'd by the oppressors of the mind, / Who study downward on the ground."
Ode. To an Eagle Confin'd in a College Court
9 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1750, 1752, 1764, 1766, 1772, 1777, 1780, 1791, 1798). First published in <u>The Student, or The Oxford Monthly Miscellany</u> (July, 1751) and <u>Poems on Several Occasions</u>. Frequently republished in <u>The Oxford Sausage</u>.<br>
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Text from <u>The Poems of the Late Christopher Smart ... Consisting of His Prize Poems, Odes, Sonnets, and Fables, Latin and English Translations: Together With Many Original Compositions, Not Included in the Quarto Edition. To Which Is Prefixed, an Account of His Life and Writings, Never Before Published.</u> 2 vols. (London: Printed and Sold by Smart and Cowslade; and sold by F. Power and Co., 1791).<br>
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See <u>The Student, or, the Oxford, and Cambridge Monthly Miscellany</u>. Vol. 2. (Oxford, 1750), pp. 356-7. &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3315313124&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading in Katrina Williamson and Marcus Walsh, eds., <u>Christopher Smart: Selected Poems</u> (New York: Penguin Books, 1990).