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Frank KeyJubilate Agno by Christopher Smart, read by Frank Key (December 20, 2007)

Jubilate Agno is a long poem by Christopher Smart. It was written between 1758 and 1763, during which time Smart was incarcerated in Mr Potter’s private madhouse in Bethnal Green. He had been admitted there after a stay in St Luke’s Hospital for the Insane, where he had been sent due to a religious mania the chief symptom of which was a compulsion to pray in public.

Smart had long been thought one of the minor religious poets of the 18th century, best known for the Song To David. Jubilate Agno itself was unknown until an edition was published in 1939 under the title Rejoice In The Lamb : A Song From Bedlam. But it was the 1954 edition edited by W H Bond which gave us the poem in its accepted form, and which has led to Smart being hailed as a great original, and his poem much more than simply the ravings of a lunatic.Jubilate Agno is divided into four fragments, the second of which is subdivided again in the edition from which this reading is taken. It is, in the words of one writer, a vast hymn of praise, glorifying God and his creation. So, with that in mind, listen carefully to what may be the first complete reading of the entire poem on the radio – if anyone knows of any other broadcasts, please let us know,

Jubilate Agno is read by Frank Key and Germander Speedwell. It will be broadcast at mid-day on the 27th December 2007.


This audio is part of the collection: Community Audio

Artist/Composer: Frank Key
Date: 2007-12-20
Source: Resonance FM Public Archives
Keywords: Poetry,Religion,Cambridge,England,Insanity,Madness

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 UK: England & Wales

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Reviewer: Slight Publications - - June 28, 2010
Subject: For a reading of Jubilate Agno is entire and Phine
Let the ears have three hours for awe, beauty, formal genius, gratitude, humours, surprise and wonder from our preeminent universal praise artist

"For by the grace of God I am the Reviver of ADORATION amongst ENGLISH-MEN"

Let readers Frank and Germanda do justice to every line

"For my talent is to give an Impression upon words by punching, that when the reader casts his eye upon 'em, he takes up the image from the mould which I have made."

Let me happy to paint the bathroom floor whilst the Fragments compile and proclaim

"For Clapperclaw is in the grappling of the words upon one another in all the modes of versification"

Let download 181 mb file for the committing to more permanent media for duplications and distributions

For wouldn't that would make a fine gift

Let thanks for Frank Kay and Germanda Speedwell which is a pretty little lavender flower again

"For the phenomenon of dreaming is not of one solution, but many."