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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... light , Through all the world her watch is keeping , And rests not now by day or night . This verse signals a great change in point of view . The second line , in particular , pictures the earth as rolling onwards into light , so that ...
... light , Through all the world her watch is keeping , And rests not now by day or night . This verse signals a great change in point of view . The second line , in particular , pictures the earth as rolling onwards into light , so that ...
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... light in the darkness ' . In later years , Newman was unable or unwilling to say what it meant : quoting Keble , he said that ' poets were not bound to be critics , or to give a sense to what they had written'.3 But the poem gives a ...
... light in the darkness ' . In later years , Newman was unable or unwilling to say what it meant : quoting Keble , he said that ' poets were not bound to be critics , or to give a sense to what they had written'.3 But the poem gives a ...
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... light : Let there be light to - day ; O Dayspring , rise upon our night , And chase its gloom away . However , the verse depends upon a certain repetition , the ' light ' of the first line being taken up in the second in a chiasmus ...
... light : Let there be light to - day ; O Dayspring , rise upon our night , And chase its gloom away . However , the verse depends upon a certain repetition , the ' light ' of the first line being taken up in the second in a chiasmus ...
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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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