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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... Never was love , dear King , Never was grief like thine ! The anaphora brings out the double - sided nature of the action , the love and grief : and the second line , which gives an answer to Herbert's ' The Sa- crifice ' , is a ...
... Never was love , dear King , Never was grief like thine ! The anaphora brings out the double - sided nature of the action , the love and grief : and the second line , which gives an answer to Herbert's ' The Sa- crifice ' , is a ...
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... never , never stray From happiness and thee . The ' never , never ' is a most skilful way of introducing into the verse that kind of human sensibility which is the result of an interaction between doctrine and experience . Her poems and ...
... never , never stray From happiness and thee . The ' never , never ' is a most skilful way of introducing into the verse that kind of human sensibility which is the result of an interaction between doctrine and experience . Her poems and ...
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... Never from my Saviour fly , And never grieve thee more . The same thing happens with another opening , from Psalm 99 : 1 : ' The Lord is King , be the people never so impatient : he sitteth between the cherubims , be the earth never so ...
... Never from my Saviour fly , And never grieve thee more . The same thing happens with another opening , from Psalm 99 : 1 : ' The Lord is King , be the people never so impatient : he sitteth between the cherubims , be the earth never so ...
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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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