The metaphysical poet John Donne wrote to celebrate the Sidney Psalter, "Divine Poems Upon the Translation of the Psalms by Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, His Sister", claiming that he could "scarce" call the English Church reformed until its psalter had been modelled after the poetic transcriptions of the Philip Sidney and Mary Herbert.
This claim reveals the wider influence various transcriptions of the Bible can have on the church, which begs the question as to which version of the text Christians take as the "true word of God".
The Sidney Psalter also had an influence on the later religious poetry of George Herbert.
There are distinct similarities between the Psalter and his poem "The Temple".
The metaphysical poet John Donne wrote to celebrate the Sidney Psalter, "Divine Poems Upon the Translation of the Psalms by Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, His Sister", claiming that he could "scarce" call the English Church reformed until its psalter had been modelled after the poetic transcriptions of the Philip Sidney and Mary Herbert. This claim reveals the wider influence various transcriptions of the Bible can have on the church, which begs the question as to which version of the text Christians take as the "true word of God". The Sidney Psalter also had an influence on the later religious poetry of George Herbert. There are distinct similarities between the Psalter and his poem "The Temple".
Sidney Psalms