The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart: Volume III. A Translation of the Psalms of David (Hardcover)

This book is a new edition of Christopher Smart's massive verse translation of the Psalms. Alhough the Psalms are much less well-known than his Song to David or Hymns and Spiritual Songs, the translation was intended as the centerpiece of a project devoted to poetically reforming the liturgy. In this work he aimed to meet the demand, expressed by many in the mid-18th century, for a new Anglican metrical psalter for regular use in the divine service written in the spirit of Christianity'. The editor's introduction and commentary include discussion of the Christianizing tendencies of Smart's Psalm translations, comparison of Smart's methods with those of earlier Psalm versifiers, demonstration of the connections in idea and expression between Smart's Psalms and mid-eighteenth-century Anglican Evangelicalism, and the use in the Translation of New Testament themes and images.

General

Imprint:	Clarendon Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Oxford English Texts
Release date:	July 1987
First published:	September 1988
Authors:	Christopher Smart
Editors:	Marcus Walsh
Dimensions:	224 x 145 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	484
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-812771-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-19-812771-5
Barcode:	9780198127710

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