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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... phrase is ' a poetic response to experience ' , and that phrase has serious implications for the whole question of hymnody - because what Driver is talking about is the central feature of the relationship between literature and religion ...
... phrase is ' a poetic response to experience ' , and that phrase has serious implications for the whole question of hymnody - because what Driver is talking about is the central feature of the relationship between literature and religion ...
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... phrase is found in Milton's Comus . It seems as though Wesley , using the German text as a base , was bringing to it ... phrases from Matthew Prior , Samuel Wesley , and Shake- speare . It begins , as these hymns often do , with a ...
... phrase is found in Milton's Comus . It seems as though Wesley , using the German text as a base , was bringing to it ... phrases from Matthew Prior , Samuel Wesley , and Shake- speare . It begins , as these hymns often do , with a ...
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... phrase by insistent phrase ' woun- ded ... wound ' , ' Sought thee ... set thee ' - in a process which reaches a climax in the fourth verse : Mine is an unchanging love , Higher than the heights above ; Deeper than the depths beneath ...
... phrase by insistent phrase ' woun- ded ... wound ' , ' Sought thee ... set thee ' - in a process which reaches a climax in the fourth verse : Mine is an unchanging love , Higher than the heights above ; Deeper than the depths beneath ...
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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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