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

Christopher Smart author Marcus Walsh editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:23rd Jul '87

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

Rose Mary Crawshay Prize 1997, awarded by British Academy

A scholarly edition of poetical works by Christopher Smart. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.The third of a five-volume edition of Smart's original poems and verse translations, which is particularly concerned to show how Smart attempted to adapt the Psalms for his eighteenth-century English Christian audience.

'Marcus Walsh ... provides a concise and scholarly introduction which is invaluable in illuminating the nature of the controversy which surrounded translation of the Psalms in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History

  • Winner of Rose Mary Crawshay Prize 1997, awarded by British Academy.

ISBN: 9780198127710

Dimensions: 224mm x 145mm x 31mm

Weight: 711g

484 pages