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psalmSacred song or poem. The term is most widely known from the book of Psalms in the Bible. Its 150 psalms, ranging in subject from songs of joyous faith and thanksgiving to songs of bitter protest and lamentation, rank among the immortal poems of all time. They have had a profound influence on the liturgies of Judaism and Christianity. Their dating and authorship are highly problematic, and the tradition of assigning them to King David is no longer accepted. In the original Hebrew text the book had no name. When the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek (the Septuagint), it was titled Psalterion, referring to a stringed instrument that would accompany such songs. psalm 1. any of the 150 sacred songs, lyric poems, and prayers that together constitute a book (Psalms) of the Old Testament 2. a musical setting of one of these poems 3. any sacred song or hymn How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In his introduction the author presents a poetics of the psalmic imagination. It was the metrical psalms that would prove to be the channel by which prayer and poetry would move forward in newly fused configurations, and Philip Sidney in his Apology for Poetry (as well as the translations he made with his sister, the Countess of Pembroke) who would redefine the relationship between original poems and those liturgical psalmic forms (75). The essay on Roethke describes his "sacramental vision" of things: "Indeed, there is rarely to be found in the literature of our period a body of poetry so predominantly psalmic and doxological as Roethke's: almost everywhere, it seems, the poet's voice is lifted up in jubilant alleluias . |
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