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

• Author: Freer, Coburn.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xiv, 252 pages))
• 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

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...