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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... grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. 1 The charge that hymns cannot produce surprise and delight is linked to the suggestion that their expression is limited and pedestrian; this is undoubtedly ...
... grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. 1 The charge that hymns cannot produce surprise and delight is linked to the suggestion that their expression is limited and pedestrian; this is undoubtedly ...
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... grace; Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face ('God moves in a mysterious way') and by Gerard Manley Hopkins, in 'The Wreck of the Deutschland': 3 St Augustine, note to Psalm 148; quoted in John Julian, A Dictionary of ...
... grace; Behind a frowning Providence He hides a smiling face ('God moves in a mysterious way') and by Gerard Manley Hopkins, in 'The Wreck of the Deutschland': 3 St Augustine, note to Psalm 148; quoted in John Julian, A Dictionary of ...
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... grace or art will sweeten these stiff quatrains shovelled out four-square5 5 . sing of peace, and preach despair; | yet they gave Robert Lowell, 'Waking Early Sunday Morning', Near the Ocean (London, 1967), 14. Lowell goes on to say ...
... grace or art will sweeten these stiff quatrains shovelled out four-square5 5 . sing of peace, and preach despair; | yet they gave Robert Lowell, 'Waking Early Sunday Morning', Near the Ocean (London, 1967), 14. Lowell goes on to say ...
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... grace. In the same way the human soul on pilgrimage is the structuring principle of 'Guide me, O thou great Jehovah', where the first verse asks for guidance on pilgrimage, the second finds the soul in the desert—Let the fiery, cloudy ...
... grace. In the same way the human soul on pilgrimage is the structuring principle of 'Guide me, O thou great Jehovah', where the first verse asks for guidance on pilgrimage, the second finds the soul in the desert—Let the fiery, cloudy ...
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... grace and unspeakable mercies, in that it has pleased him to call us unto this marveilous light of his Gospel—The result was a religion that was both biblical and individually inspiring, and there is evidence that metrical psalmody ...
... grace and unspeakable mercies, in that it has pleased him to call us unto this marveilous light of his Gospel—The result was a religion that was both biblical and individually inspiring, and there is evidence that metrical psalmody ...
Inhalt
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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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