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=== Influence === While Smart was prolific in his own right, he was influenced by many of his contemporaries, as well as those that came before him. His primary influences being [[Alexander Pope]], [[Virgil]] and [[Horace]].<ref name="Devlin 1961" /> Pope's influence can especially be seen in Smart's poem ''[[The Hilliad]],'' a play on Pope's poem ''[[The Dunciad]].'' Smart also left his mark on writers after him. In his book ''Poor Kit Smart,'' Christopher Devlin writes of Smart's influence "Robert Browning, however, D. G. Rossetti and Sir Francis Palgrave proclaimed aloud that this madman's ''Song to David'' was along the masterpieces of the English language."<ref name="Devlin 1961" />
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