English Literature / Unit 6 ENL 0517 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Mary Sidney Herbert and the Psalms
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The idea
Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Sidney's sister, completed his unfinished works and championed his legacy. She translated Petrarch and Garnier, and her verse translations of Psalms forty-four to one hundred fifty introduced, the anchor says, an astonishing array of metrical forms.
In practice
Patron, editor, translator, poet.
Where people slip
She finished what her brother began.
Your place on the trail
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