Ex Libris: Annotating Books from the William A. Clark Memorial Library

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George Sandys was a writer, poet, traveler, and colonist. The son of an archbishop, Edwin Sandys, George grew up very religious and attended the most prestigious religious schools. He went to school in Oxford. George was known to be observant and inquisitive. This gives us good explanation for the paraphrase of biblical text. He included anti-Calvinist commentaries in his Paraphrase upon the Psalms" (1636). Both in Psalms and The Songs of Solomon are written arts works and tribute to God through poetry and lyricism. It is possible that Sandys was creating his own personal devotionals and later decided to publish them. According to the Oxford dictionary, Sandys was not a rich man near the end of his life and could have published the paraphrases to make a living.

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