Works
Smart, throughout his career, published many known works. Although his works are far too many to list, a few of his most famous and important publications during his life include:
- A Song to David
- Poems on Several Occasions (including the Hop-Garden)
- The Hilliad
- The Hop-Garden
- Hymns and Spiritual Songs
- Hymns for the Amusement of Children
- The Oratorios Hannah and Abimelech
- The Parables of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ
- A Poetical Translation of the Fables of Phaedrus
- The "Seatonian Prize" poems
- A Translation of the Psalms of David
- The Works of Horace Prose and Verse
However, one of his most famous poems, Jubilate Agno, was not published until 1939, by William Force Stead. In 1943, lines from this poem were set to music by Benjamin Britten with the translated title Rejoice in the Lamb.
He is also credited with the writing of A Defence of Freemasonry (1765), also known as A Defence of Freemasonry as practised in the regular lodges, both foreign and domestic, under the Constitution of the English Grand Master, in which is contained a refutation of Mr. Dermott's absurd and ridiculous account of Freemasonry, in his book entitled 'Ahiman Rezon' and the several quries therein reflecting on the regular Masons, briefly considered and answered, that response to Laurence Dermott's Ahiman Rezon. Although there is no direct attribution on the text's titlepage, it was established as his work since its publication, and it includes a poem directly attributed to him.
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