John Hopkins

Standard Name: Hopkins, John

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Occupation John Milton
As to poetry, Paradise Lost was quickly recognised as a classic. In 1674, while it was still a very recent text, Dryden praised it as undoubtedly one of the greatest, most noble, and most sublime...
Textual Features Elisabeth Wast
The point of EW 's book is to relate her religious experiences. She follows a chronological path, interrupting herself on occasion to add something that she forgot to mention in its proper Place.
Wast, Elisabeth. Memoirs; or, Spiritual Exercises. 1724.
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Timeline

Probably by June 1549: The first collection of nineteen psalms translated...

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Probably by June 1549

The first collection of nineteen psalms translated into English verse was published by Thomas Sternhold ; later editions, after Sternhold's death (in August this year), added a few more psalms translated by John Hopkins .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
English Short Title Catalogue. http://estc.bl.uk/.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Sternhold

1562: The Anglican Book of Common Prayer first...

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1562

The Anglican Book of Common Prayer first appeared with Sternhold and Hopkins 's English verse psalms as an integral part of it.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

By 1640: About 300 editions of Sternhold and Hopkins's...

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By 1640

About 300 editions of Sternhold and Hopkins 's English verse psalms had been published.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

1696: Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady issued their...

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1696

Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady issued their New Version of the Psalms of David, which gradually replaced the metrical psalms of Sternhold and Hopkins .
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

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