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- Music for a King: George Herbert's Style and the Metrical Psalms
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- 2020
- Published by: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Funder: Mellon/NEH / Hopkins Open Publishing: Encore Editions
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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.
Table of Contents
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- Half Title
- pp. i-ii
- Title Page
- p. iii
- Dedication
- pp. v-vi
- Half Title 1
- pp. xv-xvi
- One. Introduction
- pp. 1-49
- Two. Some Metrical Psalm Styles
- pp. 50-115
- Three. Orchestral Form
- pp. 116-193
- Four. Tentative Form
- pp. 194-241
- Five. Epilogue
- pp. 242-246
Additional Information
ISBN
9781421436937
Related ISBN(s)
9780801812903, 9781421436913, 9781421436920
MARC Record
OCLC
1135392952
Pages
274
Launched on MUSE
2020-01-10
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND
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