The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke Volume II: The Psalmes of David

by Herbert, Mary Sidney; Hannay, Margaret P.; Kinnamon, Noel J.; Brennan, Michael G.

• ISBN13: 9780198184577
• ISBN10: 0198184573
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-04
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, is the most important Elizabethan woman writer and patron outside the royal family. By astute use of the genres permitted to women, she supported the Protestant cause, introduced continental literary genres, expanded opportunities for later womenwriters, and influenced seventeenth-century lyric and drama by such writers as John Donne, George Herbert, Mary Wroth, and William Shakespeare. This scholarly edition in two volumes is the first to include all her extant works: Volume I prints her three original poems, the disputed 'Dolefull Lay ofClorinda', her translations from Petrarch, Mornay, and Garnier, and all her known letters. Volume II contains her metrical paraphrases of Psalms 44-150. The edition also provides a biographical introduction, discussion of her sources and methods of composition, textual annotation, and a detailedcommentary.

Table of Contents

References and Abbreviations	viii
Editorial Procedure	xx
The Psalmes
Literary Context	3	(30)
Textual Notes: MS A	33	(2)
Text	35	(219)
Text of Variant Psalmes	254	(54)
Manuscripts of the Psalmes	308	(29)
Relationship of the Texts of the Psalmes	337	(21)
Major Revisions of Psalms 1-43	358	(4)
Commentary	362	(98)
Glossary	460	(9)
Table of Verse Forms	469	(16)
Index of First Lines and Titles of Poems	485	(6)
General Index to Introductions and Textual Essays	491