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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... rhyme and rhythm, pause and phrase, that is found in the best criticism, such as that of Christopher Ricks. Nevertheless, this book is a start: and I hope that it will encourage others to undertake the serious study of individual ...
... rhyme and rhythm, pause and phrase, that is found in the best criticism, such as that of Christopher Ricks. Nevertheless, this book is a start: and I hope that it will encourage others to undertake the serious study of individual ...
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... rhyme: Robert Lowell described them as the 'Bible chopped and crucified' In hymns we hear but do not read and in the same poem, 'Waking Early Sunday Morning', he contrasted hymns with the Bible and with poetry: none of the wilder ...
... rhyme: Robert Lowell described them as the 'Bible chopped and crucified' In hymns we hear but do not read and in the same poem, 'Waking Early Sunday Morning', he contrasted hymns with the Bible and with poetry: none of the wilder ...
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... rhyme and metre: Its streams the whole creation reach, So plenteous is the store, Enough for all, enough for each, Enough for evermore. And the stranger, who has been fascinated by Dinah's sermon as revealing 'the inward drama of the ...
... rhyme and metre: Its streams the whole creation reach, So plenteous is the store, Enough for all, enough for each, Enough for evermore. And the stranger, who has been fascinated by Dinah's sermon as revealing 'the inward drama of the ...
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... rhyme and metre. We may also note at this point, however, that the singing of hymns produces a complex interaction between the author and the singer, which often makes it very difficult to identify the 'I' or 'we' of a hymn text. When ...
... rhyme and metre. We may also note at this point, however, that the singing of hymns produces a complex interaction between the author and the singer, which often makes it very difficult to identify the 'I' or 'we' of a hymn text. When ...
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... rhyme is often involved. Charles Tomlinson's poem, 'The Chances of Rhyme', reminds us of the problem: The chances of rhyme are like the chances of meeting— In the finding fortuitous, but once found, binding:— 60 So in hymn texts the rhyme ...
... rhyme is often involved. Charles Tomlinson's poem, 'The Chances of Rhyme', reminds us of the problem: The chances of rhyme are like the chances of meeting— In the finding fortuitous, but once found, binding:— 60 So in hymn texts the rhyme ...
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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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