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'the highest matter in the noblest form' John Donne's description
of the Psalms celebrates not only the perfection of the biblical
psalms but their translation into poetic form by the Sidneys, who
turned them into some of the most accomplished lyric poems of the
English Renaissance. Although it was not printed until the
nineteenth century, the Sidney Psalter was widely read in
manuscript and influenced poets from Donne and Herbert to Milton
and beyond. It turned these well-known and well-loved Psalms into
sophisticated verse, selecting or inventing a different stanza form
for each one. This variety of forms matches the appeal of their
content: there are Psalms of praise and blame, Psalms of cursing
and lamentation, Psalms of joy and exaltation, Psalms that recount
history, and Psalms that describe Creation or divine law. This is
the first complete edition of the Psalter for over forty years. The
Psalms are provided in an authoritative modernized text, with
helpful glosses and notes illuminating points of interpretation,
and an introduction setting the Psalms in their literary and
cultural contexts. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford
World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature
from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School Libraryocm18837642In
double columns.Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe
Office, 1850. 14 p.; 24 cm.
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for
quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in
an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the
digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books
may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading
experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have
elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.
Nothing in Shakespeare's England was as important as religion.
Questions of faith informed everything from history and politics to
love and family, work and play, good and evil, suffering and
sacrifice, and ultimately life and death. Every one of
Shakespeare's plays is rich in allusions to the Bible, church rites
including baptism, communion, marriage, and burial, and a host of
religious beliefs. This Companion provides an essential grounding
in early modern religious history and culture and the ideas that
Shakespeare returns to throughout his career. Chapters dedicated to
close-readings of individual plays or groups of plays span both the
complex and variegated Christian beliefs explored in Shakespeare's
work, as well as the treatment of Judaism, Islam and classical
paganism. Authored by an international team of eminent scholars and
featuring an Afterword by Rowan Williams, this Companion is the
most comprehensive and incisive guide to the topic that students
will find.
Nothing in Shakespeare's England was as important as religion.
Questions of faith informed everything from history and politics to
love and family, work and play, good and evil, suffering and
sacrifice, and ultimately life and death. Every one of
Shakespeare's plays is rich in allusions to the Bible, church rites
including baptism, communion, marriage, and burial, and a host of
religious beliefs. This Companion provides an essential grounding
in early modern religious history and culture and the ideas that
Shakespeare returns to throughout his career. Chapters dedicated to
close-readings of individual plays or groups of plays span both the
complex and variegated Christian beliefs explored in Shakespeare's
work, as well as the treatment of Judaism, Islam and classical
paganism. Authored by an international team of eminent scholars and
featuring an Afterword by Rowan Williams, this Companion is the
most comprehensive and incisive guide to the topic that students
will find.
2011 marked the 400th anniversary of the King James version of the
Bible. No other book has been as vital to the development of
English writing or indeed to the English language itself. This
major collection of essays is the most complete one-volume
exploration of the King James Bible and its influence to date. The
chapters are written by leading scholars from a range of
disciplines, who examine the creation of the King James Bible as a
work of translation and as a linguistic and literary
accomplishment. They consider how it differed from the Bible
versions which preceded it, and assess its broad cultural impact
and precise literary influence over the centuries of writing which
followed, in English and American literature, until today. The
story will fascinate readers who approach the King James Bible from
the perspectives of literary, linguistic, religious or cultural
history.
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. The book focuses on literature from major writers like
Shakespeare and Milton to less prominent ones like George
Gascoigne, Mary Sidney Herbert and George Wither, but it also
explores the adaptations of the Psalms in musical settings,
emblems, works of theology and political polemic.
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. The book focuses on literature from major writers like
Shakespeare and Milton to less prominent ones like George
Gascoigne, Mary Sidney Herbert and George Wither, but it also
explores the adaptations of the Psalms in musical settings,
emblems, works of theology and political polemic.
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