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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 applied to more poems than are discussed here. Rather than multiply examples needlessly, this book stresses a few central poems as models or representatives. This reading of Herbert recognizes the historical dimension of his poems, but the author does not make that dimension the only significant one in the determination of poetic meaning or value.

Literature. --- Literary style. --- English poetry --- Christianity and literature. --- Christian poetry, English --- Christianity and literature --- Early modern. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Herbert, George, --- Bible. --- Bible --- In literature. --- Paraphrases, English --- History and criticism. --- 1500-1700 --- England. --- English Christian poetry --- Literature and Christianity --- Literature --- Christian literature --- English literature --- Style, Literary --- Language and languages --- Rhetoric --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Style --- Biblos Psalmon (Book of the Old Testament) --- Buch der Preisungen (Book of the Old Testament) --- Liber Psalmorum (Book of the Old Testament) --- Mazāmīr (Book of the Old Testament) --- Preisungen (Book of the Old Testament) --- Psalmen (Book of the Old Testament) --- Psalmoi (Book of the Old Testament) --- Psalms (Book of the Old Testament) --- Psalms of David (Book of the Old Testament) --- Psaumes (Book of the Old Testament) --- Pseaumes de Dauid (Book of the Old Testament) --- Salmenes bok (Book of the Old Testament) --- Salmos (Book of the Old Testament) --- Shihen (Book of the Old Testament) --- Sifr al-Mazāmīr (Book of the Old Testament) --- Soltar (Book of the Old Testament) --- Tehilim (Book of the Old Testament) --- Zsoltárkönyv (Book of the Old Testament) --- Bay Psalm book --- Tehillim (Book of the Old Testament) --- תהלים (Book of the Old Testament) --- Classical Period --- Early Modern Period --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- England and Wales --- Literary studies: poetry & poets