Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Editors’ Preface xxi
4. “A Heauenly Poesie”: The Devotional Lyric xxv
5. A Note On The Texts xxxi
6. Part One: The Ancient Origins Of The Devotional Lyric 1
7. Part Two: Early Christian Lyrics Through The Fifteenth Century 31
8. Part Three: Psalm Translations Of The English Renaissance: The Bible As Art 73
9. Part Four: The Flourishing Of The Devotional Lyric In The Post-Reformation Era 117
10. Part Five: The Poetic Sublime: The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries 213
11. Part Six: The Devotional Lyric In The Modern Era 271
12. Part Seven: The Twentieth-Century Devotional Lyric After Modernism 297
13. Credits 417
14. Index 423