Psalm culture and early modern English literature - ECU Libraries Catalog

Psalm culture and early modern English literature / Hannibal Hamlin.

Author/creator	Hamlin, Hannibal
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007, 2004.
Description	xi, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	Bible. Psalms--Paraphrases, English --History and criticism. Bible. Psalms--Criticism, interpretation, etc. --History --16th century. Bible. Psalms--Criticism, interpretation, etc. --History --17th century. Bible. Psalms--In literature. English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700 --History and criticism. Christianity and literature--England --History --16th century. Christianity and literature--England --History --17th century. Religion and literature--History --16th century. Religion and literature--History --17th century.

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Contents	Introduction -- pt. I. English metrical psalmody. "Very mete to be used of all sorts of people" : the "Sternhold and Hopkins psalter -- "Out-Sternholding Sternhold" : some rival psalters -- The Psalms and English poetry I : "Greece from us these arts deriv'd" : psalms and the English quantitative movement -- The Psalms and English poetry II : "The highest matter in the noblest forme" : psalms and the development of English verse -- pt. II. Case studies in Psalm translation. "Happy me! O happy sheep!" : Renaissance pastoral and Psalm 23 -- Psalm 51 : sin, sacrifice, and the "Sobbes of a sorrowfull soule" -- Psalm 137 : singing the Lord's song in a strange land -- Conclusion.
Review	"Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature examines the powerful influence of the biblical Psalms on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature. It explores the imaginative, beautiful, ingenious and sometimes ludicrous and improbable ways in which the Psalms were "translated" from ancient Israel to Renaissance and Reformation England. No biblical book was more often or more diversely translated than the Psalms during the period. In church psalters, sophisticated metrical paraphrases, poetic adaptations, meditations, sermons, commentaries, and through biblical allusions in secular poems, plays, and prose fiction, English men and women interpreted the Psalms, refashioning them according to their own personal, religious, political, or aesthetic agendas."--Jacket.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-280) and index.
Genre/form	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre/form	History.
ISBN	0521832705 (pbk.)
ISBN	9780521832700 (pbk.)
ISBN	9780521037068
ISBN	0521037069

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