Preface; Conventions and abbreviations; 1. An introduction: imitatio and the psalms in sixteenth-century England; 2. 'Holy Davids divine Poeme': Sir Thomas Wyatt's imitation of David's penitential psalms and Sir Thomas Smith's 'other psalme'; 3. 'Particuler prayers of particular persons, in particular greefes eyther of body or soule': occasional verses by the Earl of Surrey and others (1535-1554) 4. 'Holy songes of veritie': Thomas Sternhold and psalms 'For the recreation of all such as delight in Musicke' and 'for the confortyng of suche . in the common prayers in the church'; 5. 'A heavenly poesie . of that Lyricall kind': Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke 'singing the praises .

of that God, who giveth us hands to write, and wits to conceive': Part one - Sir Philip Sidney; 6. 'A heavenly poesie . of that Lyricall kind': Part two - The Countess of Pembroke; 7. Epilogue; Appendix; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.