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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... Verse (1940), was equally dismissive: Hymns are usually a second-rate type of poetry. Composed as they are for the practical purpose of congregational singing, they do not provide a free vehicle for the expression of the poet's ...
... Verse (1940), was equally dismissive: Hymns are usually a second-rate type of poetry. Composed as they are for the practical purpose of congregational singing, they do not provide a free vehicle for the expression of the poet's ...
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... Verse (1952), and in his subsequent books, A Gathered Church (1978) and Dissentient Voice (1982), together with his highly original Preface to The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse (1981). We should perhaps observe at this point that ...
... Verse (1952), and in his subsequent books, A Gathered Church (1978) and Dissentient Voice (1982), together with his highly original Preface to The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse (1981). We should perhaps observe at this point that ...
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... verse from a Charles Wesley hymn, 'Come, Holy Ghost, all-quickening fire': Eager for thee I ask and pant: So strong, the principle divine Carries me out with sweet constraint Till all my hallowed soul is thine, Plunged in the Godhead's ...
... verse from a Charles Wesley hymn, 'Come, Holy Ghost, all-quickening fire': Eager for thee I ask and pant: So strong, the principle divine Carries me out with sweet constraint Till all my hallowed soul is thine, Plunged in the Godhead's ...
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... verse. As Mikhail Bakhtin has written: 'Artistic form, correctly understood, does not shape already prepared and found content, but rather permits content to be found and seen for the first time.' 32 It is not a question of the verse as ...
... verse. As Mikhail Bakhtin has written: 'Artistic form, correctly understood, does not shape already prepared and found content, but rather permits content to be found and seen for the first time.' 32 It is not a question of the verse as ...
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... verse for a moment.53 Against this may be set T. S. Eliot's essay 'Reflections on Vers libre': The most interesting verse which has yet been written in our language has been done either by taking a very simple form, like the iambic ...
... verse for a moment.53 Against this may be set T. S. Eliot's essay 'Reflections on Vers libre': The most interesting verse which has yet been written in our language has been done either by taking a very simple form, like the iambic ...
Inhalt
1 | |
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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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