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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... pattern of religious significance. In one sense, that of the original creative conception of the image, he even seems more original than Hopkins, whose ideas are for the most part those of traditional praise and prayer; but it is easy ...
... pattern of religious significance. In one sense, that of the original creative conception of the image, he even seems more original than Hopkins, whose ideas are for the most part those of traditional praise and prayer; but it is easy ...
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... pattern at the end. The first line, by repeating what has been said before, holds the hymn still for a moment, but with a colon that gives promise of more to come, of an expansion of the meaning. That expansion is begun obliquely, with ...
... pattern at the end. The first line, by repeating what has been said before, holds the hymn still for a moment, but with a colon that gives promise of more to come, of an expansion of the meaning. That expansion is begun obliquely, with ...
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... patterns of the tune and metre to provide a strong base, on which they build in subtle and sensitive ways. The ... pattern. In most mainstream hymnody the combination of flexible treatment and firm metre is effective and powerful ...
... patterns of the tune and metre to provide a strong base, on which they build in subtle and sensitive ways. The ... pattern. In most mainstream hymnody the combination of flexible treatment and firm metre is effective and powerful ...
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... pattern. Slightly different, though still with seven syllables, is Charles Wesley's 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 ...
... pattern. Slightly different, though still with seven syllables, is Charles Wesley's 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 ...
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... patterns may be discerned horizontally within the individual line, but of course a line depends on other lines: just as a word is understood in context, so a line is given character, meaning, and strength not only by its structure but ...
... patterns may be discerned horizontally within the individual line, but of course a line depends on other lines: just as a word is understood in context, so a line is given character, meaning, and strength not only by its structure but ...
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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