Psalm culture and early modern English literature

Introduction

pt. I. English metrical psalmody. "Very mete to be used of all sorts of people" : the "Sternhold and Hopkins psalter

"Out-Sternholding Sternhold" : some rival psalters

The Psalms and English poetry I : "Greece from us these arts deriv'd" : psalms and the English quantitative movement

The Psalms and English poetry II : "The highest matter in the noblest forme" : psalms and the development of English verse

pt. II. Case studies in Psalm translation. "Happy me! O happy sheep!" : Renaissance pastoral and Psalm 23

Psalm 52 : sin, sacrifice, and the "Sobbes of a sorrowfull soule"

Psalm 137 : singing the Lord's song in a strange land

Conclusion.