although the psalms were not printed in her lifetime, they had extensive manuscript publication. there are 17 extant manuscripts today. a later engraving of herbert shows her holding them. her literary influence can be seen through literary patronage, through publishing her brother's works and through her own verse forms, dramas, and translations. contemporary poets who commended herbert's verse psalms include samuel daniel, sir john davies, john donne, michael drayton, sir john harington, ben jonson, aemelia lanyer, and thomas moffet. the importance and influence of the psalter translation is evident in the devotional lyric poems of barnabe barnes, nicholas breton, henry constable, francis davison, giles fletcher, and abraham fraunce — and its influence upon the later religious poetry of donne, george herbert, henry vaughan, and john milton has been critically recognized since louis martz placed it at the start of a developing tradition of seventeenth-century devotional lyric.