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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... hymns has been done by the clergy or by musicians (or by clergy-musicians) and has concentrated on the use of hymns for worship, on the content of hymns, or on their tunes. Some books rely upon anecdotes, and others, such as the lively ...
... hymns has been done by the clergy or by musicians (or by clergy-musicians) and has concentrated on the use of hymns for worship, on the content of hymns, or on their tunes. Some books rely upon anecdotes, and others, such as the lively ...
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... hymns. At the same time as recording the hope that I can illuminate the hymn genre from the point of view of a literary critic, I would also like to think that this book will do something to preserve the idea of the hymn as it once was ...
... hymns. At the same time as recording the hope that I can illuminate the hymn genre from the point of view of a literary critic, I would also like to think that this book will do something to preserve the idea of the hymn as it once was ...
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... Hymns and Psalms (1983), and later found myself (with Kenneth Trickett and others) writing the Companion to it. This book followed naturally upon the work for that, and I was much encouraged not only by reading Davie, but also by the ...
... Hymns and Psalms (1983), and later found myself (with Kenneth Trickett and others) writing the Companion to it. This book followed naturally upon the work for that, and I was much encouraged not only by reading Davie, but also by the ...
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A Critical and Historical Study J. R. Watson. 1. Discussing. Hymns: The. State. of. the. Art. Sometimes. a. Light. Surprizes. (Olney. Hymns,. 1779). The English hymn is not an easy subject for a literary critic. It is known as a verse ...
A Critical and Historical Study J. R. Watson. 1. Discussing. Hymns: The. State. of. the. Art. Sometimes. a. Light. Surprizes. (Olney. Hymns,. 1779). The English hymn is not an easy subject for a literary critic. It is known as a verse ...
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... hymns are not; as we shall see, hymns do use plenty of 'the ornaments of figurative diction', and I shall argue that what Johnson calls elsewhere 'the intercourse between God and the human soul' is anything but limited. Nevertheless ...
... hymns are not; as we shall see, hymns do use plenty of 'the ornaments of figurative diction', and I shall argue that what Johnson calls elsewhere 'the intercourse between God and the human soul' is anything but limited. Nevertheless ...
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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