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Music for a King: George Herbert's Style and the Metrical Psalms

Music for a King: George Herbert's Style and the Metrical Psalms

Paperback

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1421436914
ISBN13: 9781421436913
Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Published: Mar 1 2020
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Originally published in 1972. This book tries to study the affinities in form and matter between the versified translation of the Psalms and George Herbert's lyrics. Coburn Freer reads Herbert's poetry by way of the metrical psalms that precede it, proposing a reading that could be applied to more poems than are discussed here. Rather than multiply examples needlessly, this book stresses a few central poems as models or representatives. This reading of Herbert recognizes the historical dimension of his poems, but the author does not make that dimension the only significant one in the determination of poetic meaning or value.

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