The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart: Volume III: A Translation of the Psalms of David

by Christopher Smart and Marcus Walsh

This book is a new edition of Christopher Smart's massive verse translation of the Psalms. Alhough the Psalms are much less well-known than his Song to David or Hymns and Spiritual Songs, the translation was intended as the centerpiece of a project devoted to poetically reforming the liturgy. In this work he aimed to meet the demand, expressed by many in the mid-18th century, for a new Anglican metrical psalter for regular use in the divine service...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198127715
• ISBN13: 9780198127710
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"