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42 relations: A Song to David, A. E. Housman, Bethlem Royal Hospital, Bipolar disorder, Board of Green Cloth, Charles Burney, Christopher Smart, Cyclothymia, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Enthusiasm, Evangelicalism, First Epistle to the Thessalonians, Francis Palgrave, Grub Street, Hester Thrale, Horace, James Boswell, John Churton Collins, John Keats, John Milton, John Monro (physician), John Newbery, Jubilate Agno, Madhouses Act 1774, Michel Foucault, Paul the Apostle, Pembroke College, Cambridge, Psychiatric hospital, Robert Browning, Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain, Samuel Johnson, Seatonian Prize, St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics, The Gentleman's Magazine, The Hilliad, The Hop-Garden, Thomas Gray, Thomas Szasz, William Battie, William Cowper, William Law, William Mason (poet).
A Song to David
A Song to David, a poem by Christopher Smart, was most likely written during his stay in a mental asylum while he wrote Jubilate Agno.
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A. E. Housman
Alfred Edward Housman (26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known to the general public for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.
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Bethlem Royal Hospital
Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as St Mary Bethlehem, Bethlehem Hospital and Bedlam, is a psychiatric hospital in London.
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Bipolar disorder
Bipolar disorder, previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder that causes periods of depression and periods of abnormally elevated mood.
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Board of Green Cloth
The Board of Green Cloth was a board of officials belonging to the Royal Household of England and Great Britain.
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Charles Burney
Charles Burney FRS (7 April 1726 – 12 April 1814) was an English music historian, composer and musician.
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Christopher Smart
Christopher Smart (11 April 1722 – 21 May 1771), was an English poet.
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Cyclothymia
Cyclothymia, also known as cyclothymic disorder, is a mental disorder that involves periods of symptoms of depression and periods of symptoms of hypomania.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was a British poet, illustrator, painter and translator, and a member of the Rossetti family.
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Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm is intense enjoyment, interest, or approval.
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Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism, evangelical Christianity, or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, crossdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity which maintains the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ's atonement.
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First Epistle to the Thessalonians
The First Epistle to the Thessalonians, usually referred to simply as First Thessalonians (written 1 Thessalonians and abbreviated 1 Thess. or 1 Thes.), is a book from the New Testament of the Christian Bible.
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Francis Palgrave
Sir Francis Palgrave, (born Francis Ephraim Cohen, July 1788 – 6 July 1861) was an English archivist and historian.
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Grub Street
Until the early 19th century, Grub Street was a street close to London's impoverished Moorfields district that ran from Fore Streer east of St Giles-without-Cripplegate north to Chiswell Street.
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Hester Thrale
Hester Lynch Thrale (born Hester Lynch Salusbury and after her second marriage becoming Hester Lynch Piozzi, 27 January 1741 – 2 May 1821) was a Welsh-born diarist, author, and patron of the arts.
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Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (December 8, 65 BC – November 27, 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian).
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James Boswell
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck (29 October 1740 – 19 May 1795), was a Scottish biographer and diarist, born in Edinburgh.
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John Churton Collins
John Churton Collins (26 March 1848 – 25 September 1908) was a British literary critic.
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John Keats
John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet.
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John Milton
John Milton (9 December 16088 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under its Council of State and later under Oliver Cromwell.
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John Monro (physician)
John Monro (16 November 1716 – 27 December 1791) was a physician specializing in the treatment of madness at Bethlem Hospital in London, better known as Bedlam.
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John Newbery
John Newbery (9 July 1713 – 22 December 1767), called "The Father of Children's Literature", was an English publisher of books who first made children's literature a sustainable and profitable part of the literary market.
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Jubilate Agno
Jubilate Agno (Latin: "Rejoice in the Lamb") is a religious poem by Christopher Smart, and was written between 1759 and 1763, during Smart's confinement for insanity in St. Luke's Hospital, Bethnal Green, London.
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Madhouses Act 1774
The Madhouses Act 1774 (14 Geo. 3 c.49) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which set out a legal framework for regulating "madhouses" (insane asylums).
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Michel Foucault
Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 1926 – 25 June 1984), generally known as Michel Foucault, was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist, and literary critic.
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Paul the Apostle
Paul the Apostle (Paulus; translit, ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ; c. 5 – c. 64 or 67), commonly known as Saint Paul and also known by his Jewish name Saul of Tarsus (translit; Saũlos Tarseús), was an apostle (though not one of the Twelve Apostles) who taught the gospel of the Christ to the first century world.
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Pembroke College, Cambridge
Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.
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Psychiatric hospital
Psychiatric hospitals, also known as mental hospitals, mental health units, mental asylums or simply asylums, are hospitals or wards specializing in the treatment of serious mental disorders, such as clinical depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder.
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Robert Browning
Robert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets.
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Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain
Walter Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain (23 October 1895 – 29 December 1966) was a British neurologist.
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson LL.D. (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr.
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Seatonian Prize
The Seatonian Prize is awarded by the University of Cambridge for the best English poem on a sacred subject, and is open to any Master of Arts of the university.
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St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics
St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics was founded in London in 1751 for the treatment of incurable pauper lunatics by a group of philanthropic apothecaries and others.
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The Gentleman's Magazine
The Gentleman's Magazine was founded in London, England, by Edward Cave in January 1731.
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The Hilliad
The Hilliad was Christopher Smart's mock epic poem written as a literary attack upon John Hill on 1 February 1753.
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The Hop-Garden
The Hop-Garden by Christopher Smart was first published in Poems on Several Occasions, 1752.
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Thomas Gray
Thomas Gray (26 December 1716 – 30 July 1771) was an English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge.
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Thomas Szasz
Thomas Stephen Szasz (Szász Tamás István; 15 April 1920 – 8 September 2012) was a Hungarian-American academic, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
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William Battie
William Battie (sometimes spelt Batty)), 1 September 1703–13 June 1776, was an English physician who published in 1758 the first lengthy book on the treatment of mental illness, A Treatise on Madness, and by extending methods of treatment to the poor as well as the affluent, helped raise psychiatry to a respectable specialty. He was President of the Royal College of Physicians in 1764.
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William Cowper
William Cowper (26 November 1731 – 25 April 1800) was an English poet and hymnodist.
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William Law
William Law (1686 – 9 April 1761) was a Church of England priest who lost his position at Emmanuel College, Cambridge when his conscience would not allow him to take the required oath of allegiance to the first Hanoverian monarch, George I. Previously William Law had given his allegiance to the House of Stuart and is sometimes considered a second-generation non-juror (an earlier generation of non-jurors included Thomas Ken).
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William Mason (poet)
William Mason (12 February 1724 – 7 April 1797) was an English divine, poet, amateur draughtsman, author, editor and gardener.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Smart's_asylum_confinement
