With the English language at its zenith and England needing a lift of spirit due to the changing of the reign, King James has commissioned a new Bible, set in the language of the day. He has appointed more than fifty scholars and clerics from Cambridge, Oxford, and Westminster, and yet for all their wit and pedigree, there is not a poet among them. It is 1608. Four years have passed and the new translation is almost finished. James then acts upon...