Description
Book SynopsisThe Works of James Melville presents both published and unpublished prose and poetry by Scottish divine James Melville (15561614). James Melville has been largely ignored as a significant figure in the life of the Scottish Church in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. While his Diary and Autobiography is often referenced as an important account of the Scottish Kirk, the rest of his writing remains unavailable to modern scholars. The result is that we are without an important resource for understanding the spiritual dynamics of the Scottish Church, as well as the devotional life of the ordinary believer. This bookwhich incorporates vital critical commentary on each of the selected worksendeavors to fill this scholarly lacuna, and to excite interest in Melville as a self-conscious writer who drew on all manner of sources, even as he developed a distinctive voice that positioned him as an important religious writer of the Reformation. Melville's understand
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements – Introduction – A Spiritvall Propine of a Pastour to his People – A Morning Vision – A Frvitful and Comfortable Exhortatioun anent Death – The manner of the sicknesse and departure, of Iean d’Albret – The Black Bastel, or A Lamentation in Name of the Kirk of Scotland – A Preservative from Apostacie – The wandering sheepe or Davids tragique fall – The reliefe of the longing soule, or The Song of Songs – Short Poems – The Zodiac of Lyff – Poems from Melville’s Autobiography and Diary – Translations from Latin in Autobiography and Diary – Three Sonnets from D. Robert Rollici Scoti.
