Music for a King George Herbert's Style and the Metrical Psalms / Coburn Freer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freer, Coburn.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Herbert, George, 1593-1633.

Herbert, George, 1593-1633--Literary style.

Bible. Psalms.

Bible.

Bible--In literature.

Bible. Psalms--Paraphrases, English--History and criticism.

Literature.

Literary style.

English poetry--Early modern.

English poetry.

Christianity and literature.

Christian poetry, English--Early modern.

Christian poetry, English.

Christian poetry, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

Christianity and literature--England--History--17th century.

English poetry--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

England.

Genre:

History.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xiv, 252 pages))

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johns Hopkins University Press

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Originally published in 1972. Music for a King 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.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Title Page

Contents

Preface

Short Titles of Editions and Frequently Cited Critical Works

One: Introduction

I. Herbert and the Psalter: Method and Experience

II. A Century of Psalms

III. Informing Patterns

Two: Some Metrical Psalm Styles

I. Sir Thomas Wyatt

II. The Old Version

III. Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke

IV. George Wither

V. Conclusion

Three: Orchestral Form

I. Analogous Forms

II. Orchestral Form

Four: Tentative Form

Five: Epilogue

Index.

Notes:

Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License

Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1972

Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xiv).

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8018-1290-9

1-4214-3691-4

OCLC:

1135392952