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English Metrical Psalms

Poetry as Praise and Prayer, 1535 1601

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1987 book was the first full-scale study of English metrical Psalms to be published in the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 489g
• ISBN-13: 9780521172219
• ISBN-10: 0521172217
• Artikelnr.: 31386504

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Conventions and abbreviations; 1. An introduction: imitatio and
the psalms in sixteenth-century England; 2. 'Holy Davids divine Poeme': Sir
Thomas Wyatt's imitation of David's penitential psalms and Sir Thomas
Smith's 'other psalme'; 3. 'Particuler prayers of particular persons, in
particular greefes eyther of body or soule': occasional verses by the Earl
of Surrey and others (1535-1554) 4. 'Holy songes of veritie': Thomas
Sternhold and psalms 'For the recreation of all such as delight in Musicke'
and 'for the confortyng of suche ... in the common prayers in the church';
5. 'A heavenly poesie ... of that Lyricall kind': Sir Philip Sidney and the
Countess of Pembroke 'singing the praises ... of that God, who giveth us
hands to write, and wits to conceive': Part one - Sir Philip Sidney; 6. 'A
heavenly poesie ... of that Lyricall kind': Part two - The Countess of
Pembroke; 7. Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.