The English Hymn: A Critical and Historical StudyOUP Oxford, 10.07.1997 - 564 Seiten D.H. Lawrence, writing of the poems that had meant most to him, said that they were `still not woven so deep in me as the rather banal Nonconformist hymns that penetrated through and through my childhood'. It is not easy to account for this, and most writing about hymns has not helped because it has concentrated on their content and function in worship and liturgy. In the present book the author tries to account for feelings like Lawrence's by examining the hymn form and its progress through the centuries from the Reformation to the present day. He begins by discussing the status of a hymn text and relates it to the demands made upon it by the needs of singing. A chronological study then traces the development of the English hymn, from the metrical psalms of the Reformation, through the seventeenth century and Isaac Watts to the Wesleys, Cowper, Toplady, and others, and then to the great flood of hymn writing that occurred during the Victorian period, together with the great success of Hymns Ancient and Modern. There are chapters on American hymnody and women's hymn writing, and sections on gospel hymns and the translation of German hymnody. A final chapter takes the story into the twentieth century, with a brief postscript on the revival of hymn writing since 1960. |
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... Christ, whose glory fills the skies— We could say, I think, that if Christ's glory fills the skies, here it also fills the line. Certainly every word has its part to play in producing the effect; and the stresses which are set up in ...
... Christ, whose glory fills the skies— We could say, I think, that if Christ's glory fills the skies, here it also fills the line. Certainly every word has its part to play in producing the effect; and the stresses which are set up in ...
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... Christ', or 'Spirit', which in various ways and to different degrees are floating signifiers, given direction and point by what follows: my soul—Jesu, lover of God is a name my soul adores— Spirit divine, attend our prayers— In these ...
... Christ', or 'Spirit', which in various ways and to different degrees are floating signifiers, given direction and point by what follows: my soul—Jesu, lover of God is a name my soul adores— Spirit divine, attend our prayers— In these ...
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... Christ's abode. Short Metre specializes in the sharp, neat, well-focused use of biblical texts: How beauteous are their feet Who stand on Zion's hill! Who bring salvation on their tongues, And words of peace reveal! These lines are a ...
... Christ's abode. Short Metre specializes in the sharp, neat, well-focused use of biblical texts: How beauteous are their feet Who stand on Zion's hill! Who bring salvation on their tongues, And words of peace reveal! These lines are a ...
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... Christ in majesty, although the initial reference is to the first and last verses of Psalm 97: 'The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice' and 'Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous: and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness'. The ...
... Christ in majesty, although the initial reference is to the first and last verses of Psalm 97: 'The Lord reigneth, let the earth rejoice' and 'Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous: and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness'. The ...
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... Christ and his kingdome. And William Tyndale, in pre-Reformation times, had noted that 'there was Christ but figured and described in ceremonies, in riddles, and parables, and in dark prophecies'.73 At the Reformation itself, the psalms ...
... Christ and his kingdome. And William Tyndale, in pre-Reformation times, had noted that 'there was Christ but figured and described in ceremonies, in riddles, and parables, and in dark prophecies'.73 At the Reformation itself, the psalms ...
Inhalt
1 | |
22 | |
42 | |
George Wither and Others | 57 |
5 The SeventeenthCentury Anglican Tradition | 81 |
Puritan Psalms and Hymns | 103 |
7 Isaac Watts | 133 |
8 After Watts | 171 |
Montgomery Heber Keble | 300 |
13 The Victorian Hymn | 335 |
14 The Oxford Movement and the Revival of Ancient Hymnody | 355 |
15 Hymns Ancient and Modern | 387 |
16 Victorian Women HymnWriters | 422 |
17 American Hymnody | 461 |
18 Different Traditions | 486 |
19 Into the Twentieth Century | 511 |
9 John and Charles Wesley | 205 |
10 Charles Wesley and His Art | 230 |
11 After the Wesleys | 265 |
Select Bibliography | 533 |
Index | 547 |
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