
The Poetical Works of Christopher Smart: Volume III. A Translation of the Psalms of David
Volume III: A Translation of the Psalms of David
Christopher Smart(Author)
Marcus Walsh(Editor)
Clarendon Press
Published on 23. July 1987
Book
Hardback
484 pages
978-0-19-812771-0 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
'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
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
Weight
808 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-812771-0 (9780198127710)
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