He may have known the poetry of Baudelaire.
Kwildignified
Tom Izbicki wrote:
>
> Bill,
> This leads me back to Oscar Wilde. Would he have known a Latin version of
> the psalm, or would he have known a BCP version from which he took his title?
> Tom
>
> At 11:11 AM 4/24/2000 +0100, you wrote:
> >
> >> Would anyone know when the practice of typesetting the opening Latin
> >> words
> >> of a Psalm above the English translation began. I see it in the
> >> recent
> >> edition of the Book of Common Prayer.
> >
> >1549, in the very first edition of the Prayer Book. The reformers
> >thought - no doubt rightly - that it would help people to identify
> >psalms with which they were familiar in the Latin, but whose numbering
> >had been changed in the English. It has been done in every edition of
> >the Book of Common Prayer, ever since.
> >
> >Oriens.
> >
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