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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... particular rhythms and resonances . The word ' dog- gerel ' , applied to the ' Old Version ' , was John Wesley's ( ' wretched , scandal- ous doggerel'1 ) , and Wesley was one of a number of seventeenth- and eighteenth - century ...
... particular rhythms and resonances . The word ' dog- gerel ' , applied to the ' Old Version ' , was John Wesley's ( ' wretched , scandal- ous doggerel'1 ) , and Wesley was one of a number of seventeenth- and eighteenth - century ...
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... particular reverence attached to the sacred text of the Bible , Wither had to follow it closely , even to the extent of using the same figures of speech , as in the description of Pharaoh's army : The Deepes , a covering over them were ...
... particular reverence attached to the sacred text of the Bible , Wither had to follow it closely , even to the extent of using the same figures of speech , as in the description of Pharaoh's army : The Deepes , a covering over them were ...
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... particular importance to Charles Wesley , because they help to release his verse into its most visionary and exalted descriptions of heaven . But that theme is balanced , as it is here , by an equally vigorous moral and pastoral concern ...
... particular importance to Charles Wesley , because they help to release his verse into its most visionary and exalted descriptions of heaven . But that theme is balanced , as it is here , by an equally vigorous moral and pastoral concern ...
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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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