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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... kind seem very simple , not only in metre and image , but in their whole mode of operation . Apart from the ... kind of a text it is , how we read or sing it , what kind of pleasure we get from it , how we interpret it ; in the process ...
... kind seem very simple , not only in metre and image , but in their whole mode of operation . Apart from the ... kind of a text it is , how we read or sing it , what kind of pleasure we get from it , how we interpret it ; in the process ...
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... kind of literary medium of rheto- rical questioning , to find language for the great experience . So every attempt is a new beginning , and every hymn is , in T. S. Eliot's words , a different kind of failure . The ' And ' at the ...
... kind of literary medium of rheto- rical questioning , to find language for the great experience . So every attempt is a new beginning , and every hymn is , in T. S. Eliot's words , a different kind of failure . The ' And ' at the ...
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... kind that Philip Larkin identified in ' MCMXIV ' ( ' Never such innocence again ' ) : there was even a kind of hope ( found in the poetry of Rupert Brooke and others ) that a war would somehow sort things out . It did not , of course ...
... kind that Philip Larkin identified in ' MCMXIV ' ( ' Never such innocence again ' ) : there was even a kind of hope ( found in the poetry of Rupert Brooke and others ) that a war would somehow sort things out . It did not , of course ...
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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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