Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature

Informationen zum Autor Hannibal Hamlin is Assistant Professor of English at Ohio State University, Mansfield. Klappentext Examining the influence of the biblical Psalms on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English literature! this study explores the imaginative! beautiful and ingenious as well as sometimes ludicrous and improbable ways in which the Psalms were 'translated'. Spanning ancient Israel to Renaissance and Reformation England! the book focuses on literature of major writers that ranges from Shakespeare and Milton to less prominent ones: George Gascoigne! Mary Sidney Herbert! and George Wither. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; Acknowledgements; Note on the text; Introduction; Part I. English Metrical Psalmody; 1. 'Very mete to be used of all sortes of people': the 'Sternhold and Hopkins' psalter; 2. 'Out-Sternholding Sternhold': some rival psalters; 3. The Psalms and English poetry I: 'Greece from us these Arts deriv'd': psalms and the English quantitative movement; 4. The Psalms and English Poetry II: 'The highest matter in the noblest forme': psalms and the development of English verse; Part II. Case Studies in Psalm Translation: 5. 'Happy me! O happy sheep!': Renaissance pastoral and Psalm 23; 6. Psalm 51: sin, sacrifice and the 'Sobbes of a Sorrowfull Soule'; 7. Psalm 137: singing the Lord's song in a strange land; Conclusion; Appendix: Psalms 23, 51, and 137 (Coverdale translation); Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Hannibal Hamlin, Hamlin Hannibal
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.01.2004
• EAN: 9780521832700
• ISBN: 978-0-521-83270-0
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Meditations / General, RELIGION / Reference, Christianity, Literary studies: general, Bible readings, selections & meditations, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Bible readings, selections and meditations, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts