The Hood Library Book of the Week

Among the Hood Library’s recent acquisitions is The Psalms in English.

The Psalms are Ancient Hebrew songs of devotion, lament, confession, and thanksgiving whose composers probably included King David, "the sweet psalmist of Israel."  In their English versions they continue to assert profound influence in the Christian as well as the Jewish traditions.  This volume contains contributions from Sir Thomas Wyatt, the Countess of Pembroke, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Christopher Smart, Hardy, Isaac Rosenberg, and Clive Wilmer among many others, and it includes poems which meditate on David as an alternative to the Ancient Greek figure of Orpheus, and on Ancient Hebrew poetry as an alternative to the Ancient Greek.

The collection was edited by the late Donald Davie, the English poet and literary critic.

Please visit the Hood Library this coming Sunday to borrow this book - or any other of our recent acquisitions.  And as always, the Hood Library’s fine collection - a congregational treasure since 1931 - is open on Sundays for perusal and borrowing.