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The Review of English Studies Advance Access published online on April 15, 2009
The Review of English Studies, doi:10.1093/res/hgn172
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press 2009; all rights reserved

Contextualising Accents and Alphabets in the Work of Christopher Smart

Marcus Tomalin


  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.


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