The English Hymn: A Critical and Historical StudyClarendon Press, 1997 - 552 Seiten Why do people sing hymns? Are hymns poetry? What makes a good hymn? The author discusses the nature of hymns and their particular appeal, examines the English hymn as a literary form, and systematically describes its development through four centuries, from the Reformation to the mid-twentieth century. |
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... George Eliot begins Adam Bede with Adam in the village workshop singing Bishop Ken's morning hymn : Awake , my soul , and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run ; Dinah Morris concludes her sermon in chapter 2 of the same novel with a ...
... George Eliot begins Adam Bede with Adam in the village workshop singing Bishop Ken's morning hymn : Awake , my soul , and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run ; Dinah Morris concludes her sermon in chapter 2 of the same novel with a ...
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... George Eliot views with a certain amused irony ) . In due course arrived the Revd Amos Barton , who was a modernizer , against metrical psalms and ' all for the hymns ' . He stopped the singing of the wedding - psalm for a newly married ...
... George Eliot views with a certain amused irony ) . In due course arrived the Revd Amos Barton , who was a modernizer , against metrical psalms and ' all for the hymns ' . He stopped the singing of the wedding - psalm for a newly married ...
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... George Eliot , have long recog- nized that a woman writer was faced with severe problems in the Victorian age . Southey's reply to Charlotte Brontë - ' Literature cannot be the busi- ness of a woman's life , and it ought not to be " -is ...
... George Eliot , have long recog- nized that a woman writer was faced with severe problems in the Victorian age . Southey's reply to Charlotte Brontë - ' Literature cannot be the busi- ness of a woman's life , and it ought not to be " -is ...
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The State of the Art | 1 |
The Singing of Hymns and the Experience of Metre | 22 |
The Whole Booke of Psalmes | 42 |
Urheberrecht | |
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