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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... religious sensibility is expressed through , and is inextricable from , the language which is used . Dr Johnson , as we have seen , maintained that such language was limited , together with the subject - matter ( ' the topics of ...
... religious sensibility is expressed through , and is inextricable from , the language which is used . Dr Johnson , as we have seen , maintained that such language was limited , together with the subject - matter ( ' the topics of ...
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... religious poem . What began to be different , as the Reformation progressed on its tangled and complex way , was the style and treatment of religious matters : on the one hand were the Puritans , ' the hotter sort of protestants ...
... religious poem . What began to be different , as the Reformation progressed on its tangled and complex way , was the style and treatment of religious matters : on the one hand were the Puritans , ' the hotter sort of protestants ...
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... religious texts , by writers such as Milton , Herbert , Baxter , and John Wilk- ins.36 In the preface to the edition of 1709 , his general intentions were made plain : he wished to argue and to demonstrate that poetry , ' whose Original ...
... religious texts , by writers such as Milton , Herbert , Baxter , and John Wilk- ins.36 In the preface to the edition of 1709 , his general intentions were made plain : he wished to argue and to demonstrate that poetry , ' whose Original ...
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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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