English Metrical Psalms: Poetry as Praise and Prayer, 1535–1601

Abstract

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.

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