Sternhold, Hopkins and the English Metrical Psalter, 1547–1603
by
Beth Quitslund
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The Whole Booke of Psalmes was one of the most published and widely read books of early modern England, running to over 1000 editions between the 1570s and the early eighteenth century. It offered all of the Psalms paraphrased in verse with appropriate tunes, together with an assortment of other scriptural...