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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... Night Thoughts , which was published in various sections or ' Nights ' between 1742 and 1749 , lay in its treatment of many of the issues which interested and moved the Wesleys . They approved of it , as Stephen Cornford has suggested ...
... Night Thoughts , which was published in various sections or ' Nights ' between 1742 and 1749 , lay in its treatment of many of the issues which interested and moved the Wesleys . They approved of it , as Stephen Cornford has suggested ...
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... Night II ' , the proper use and value of time , and ' Night VI ' , which dealt with ' the Infidel Reclaim'd ' . Also signi- ficant in Night Thoughts is the speaker's challenge to his silent figure Lorenzo to use reason properly ...
... Night II ' , the proper use and value of time , and ' Night VI ' , which dealt with ' the Infidel Reclaim'd ' . Also signi- ficant in Night Thoughts is the speaker's challenge to his silent figure Lorenzo to use reason properly ...
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... night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry . ( In Memoriam , LIV ) Both writers see themselves as surrounded by darkness , and as children crying for help : it may be the darkness of the mind , or the ...
... night : An infant crying for the light : And with no language but a cry . ( In Memoriam , LIV ) Both writers see themselves as surrounded by darkness , and as children crying for help : it may be the darkness of the mind , or the ...
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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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