The Poets' Book of Psalms: The Complete Psalter as Rendered by Twenty-five Poets from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries

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Laurance Wieder
HarperSanFrancisco, 1995 - 311 pages
Contains psalm translations by Francis Bacon. Robert Burns, Thomas Campion, Thomas Carew, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Miles Coverdale, John Davies, John Donne, Anne Finch, John Hall, Joseph Hall, George Herbert, Mary Sidney Herbert, John Milton, Francis Quarles, David Rosenberg, George Sandys, Philip Sidney, Christopher Smart, Thomas Stanley, Henry Howard of Surrey, P. Hately Waddell, Laurance Wieder, George Wither, and Thomas Wyatt.

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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION Laurance Wieder xiii
The First Psalm ROBERT BURNS 7
The Eighth Psalm HENRY HOWARD OF SURREY 15
The Hundredfifteenth Psalm CHRISTOPHER SMART 171
The Hundredthirtyfourth Psalm MARY SIDNEY HERBERT 197
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