Editing Christopher Smart (section)

===Later career===
[[Image:The HopGarden illustration.JPG|thumb|right|Illustration of ''[[The Hop-Garden]]'']]
In 1752, Christopher Smart was slowly dragged into a large "[[Paper War of 1752–1753|paper war]]" that involved many of London's writers.<ref>{{harvnb|Mounsey|2001|pp=131–132}}</ref> After the publication of ''Poems on Several Occasions'', including ''[[The Hop-Garden]]'', in June 1752, [[John Hill (author)|John Hill]] launched a major attack upon Smart's poetry.<ref>{{harvnb|Mounsey|2001|p=131}}</ref> Smart responded with his mock-epic ''[[The Hilliad]]''.<ref>{{harvnb|Mounsey|2001|p=134}}</ref>  Before the release of Smart's poem, Hill was engaged in a large literary battle between various members of Grub Street's and London's writing community, especially [[Henry Fielding]].<ref>{{harvnb|Bertelsen|1999|p=135}}</ref>  This battle may have been for publicity only and lasted over many months before Smart involved himself.<ref>{{harvnb|Bertelsen|1999|p=143}}</ref>  However, even with such a late entry, his ''Hilliad'' was the "loudest broadside" of the war.<ref>{{harvnb|Bertelsen|1999|p=144}}</ref>

Smart was incurring numerous debts, and started publishing as much as possible during this time to support his family. He is said to have married Anna-Maria Carnan around 1752 or 1753, although the exact date is unknown; they initially kept their marriage a secret so Smart could continue to get money from his Cambridge fellowship, which ended shortly thereafter.<ref name="Devlin 1961">{{harvnb|Devlin|1961}}</ref> By 1754, the pair already had two daughters, Marianne (3 May 1753) and [[Elizabeth Anne Le Noir|Elizabeth Anne]] (27 October 1754).<ref name="Sherbo p. 100">{{harvnb|Sherbo|1967|p=100}}</ref>  As a married man, he could no longer remain enrolled at Pembroke and collect his scholarship money when his marriage and children were made apparent to the heads of the college.<ref name="Sherbo p. 100" />  Newbery allowed Smart, along with his wife and their children, to live at [[Canonbury House and Canonbury Tower|Canonbury House]], Islington.<ref name="Sherbo p. 87" /> Although Newbery had a strong reputation for charity, he was determined to have complete control over his writers.<ref>{{harvnb|Mounsey|2001|p=149}}</ref>  It is likely that such an attitude combined with monetary problems led to a rift forming between the two by 1753.<ref>{{harvnb|Mounsey|2001|p=157}}</ref>

Between 1753 and 1755, Smart published or republished at least 79 works.<ref>{{harvnb|Mahony|Rizzo|1984}}</ref> However, even if he received money from each of these publications, they were unable to provide enough of an income to support a family, especially to his standard of living.<ref>{{harvnb|Mounsey|2001|p=159}}</ref> While he was producing a poem each year for the ''Seatonian Prize'', this amounted to very little of his writing; he was forced into a life of "hack work", which was described by his contemporary, Arthur Murphy, as "a bookseller is his only friend, but for that bookseller, however liberal, he must toil and drudge."<ref>{{harvnb|Mounsey|2001|p=167}}</ref> In December 1755, he finished ''The Works of Horace, Translated Literally into English Prose'', a translation of [[Horace]], which was widely used but brought him little profit.<ref>{{harvnb|Sherbo|1967|p=102}}</ref>

He signed a 99-year contract in November 1755 to produce a weekly paper entitled ''The Universal Visitor or Monthly Memorialist'' for Thomas Gardner and Edmund Allen.<ref>{{harvnb|Sherbo|1967|p=104}}</ref> However, the strain of publishing caused Smart to have a seizure, and he was unable to keep up with the publishing of the paper.<ref name="Sherbo p. 105">{{harvnb|Sherbo|1967|p=105}}</ref> Allen was a friend of [[Samuel Johnson]], and it was Samuel Johnson, along with many other friends of Smart, who contributed to the magazine in order to help Smart keep up with his contract.<ref name="Sherbo p. 105" />  In March 1756, Newbery published, without Smart's authority, his final "Seatonian Prize" poem, ''On the Goodness of the Supreme Being'', and later, on 5 June, he published, again without Smart's authority, his ''Hymn to the Supreme Being'', a poem which thanked God for recovery from an illness of some kind, possibly a "disturbed mental state".<ref>{{harvnb|Curry|2005|p=5}}</ref>  The ''Hymn to the Supreme Being'' marks the time in Smart's life after the mysterious "fit" was resolved and the beginning of his obsession with religion and his praying "without ceasing".<ref name="Curry 6 7">{{harvnb|Curry|2005|pp=6–7}}</ref>