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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... hymn text has traditionally been regarded as belonging to the Church , at the service of the editors of a hymn - book , to be altered in whatever way seems to them to be most helpful or expedient . The appalling instability of hymn ...
... hymn text has traditionally been regarded as belonging to the Church , at the service of the editors of a hymn - book , to be altered in whatever way seems to them to be most helpful or expedient . The appalling instability of hymn ...
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... Hymns.24 Here again he contrasts the world of religion , with all its pressures on the individual to conform , with the private world of the imagination . The present book is an attempt to recover the hymn from such criticism , without ...
... Hymns.24 Here again he contrasts the world of religion , with all its pressures on the individual to conform , with the private world of the imagination . The present book is an attempt to recover the hymn from such criticism , without ...
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... hymn into disrepute . At other times , the collegiality which is reflected in hymn - writing is helpful : not only in the shared codes from the Bible and the Church Fathers , but from the intertextuality of hymn - writing . Each hymn is ...
... hymn into disrepute . At other times , the collegiality which is reflected in hymn - writing is helpful : not only in the shared codes from the Bible and the Church Fathers , but from the intertextuality of hymn - writing . Each hymn 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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