Psalm Culture and Early Modern English Literature
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 28, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780521037068
Subjects: Books of the Old Testament; Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; Christianity - Literature & the Arts; Renaissance; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism : Renaissance; Religion : Christianity - Literature & the Arts; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
First sentence: In 1699 King David, the original psalmist, was called back from the dead by Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins to lend his authoritative voice to their complaint against the New Version of the Psalms of 1696.