The English Hymn: A Critical and Historical StudyOUP Oxford, 10.07.1997 - 564 Seiten D.H. Lawrence, writing of the poems that had meant most to him, said that they were `still not woven so deep in me as the rather banal Nonconformist hymns that penetrated through and through my childhood'. It is not easy to account for this, and most writing about hymns has not helped because it has concentrated on their content and function in worship and liturgy. In the present book the author tries to account for feelings like Lawrence's by examining the hymn form and its progress through the centuries from the Reformation to the present day. He begins by discussing the status of a hymn text and relates it to the demands made upon it by the needs of singing. A chronological study then traces the development of the English hymn, from the metrical psalms of the Reformation, through the seventeenth century and Isaac Watts to the Wesleys, Cowper, Toplady, and others, and then to the great flood of hymn writing that occurred during the Victorian period, together with the great success of Hymns Ancient and Modern. There are chapters on American hymnody and women's hymn writing, and sections on gospel hymns and the translation of German hymnody. A final chapter takes the story into the twentieth century, with a brief postscript on the revival of hymn writing since 1960. |
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... George Herbert and Isaac Watts. And since then (citing Wesley's example as a precedent) editors of hymn-books have selected verses and altered phrases in ways which are quite contrary to the principles of textual recovery in other ...
... George Herbert and Isaac Watts. And since then (citing Wesley's example as a precedent) editors of hymn-books have selected verses and altered phrases in ways which are quite contrary to the principles of textual recovery in other ...
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... George Wither, William Cowper, and Robert Bridges'. David Cecil, The Stricken Deer (London, 1929), 141. Bernard Manning, The Hymns of Wesley and Watts (London, 1942), 14. There are a number of valuable historical studies of the English ...
... George Wither, William Cowper, and Robert Bridges'. David Cecil, The Stricken Deer (London, 1929), 141. Bernard Manning, The Hymns of Wesley and Watts (London, 1942), 14. There are a number of valuable historical studies of the English ...
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... George Sampson wrote, with an effective irony (not long after Cecil's remarks, and perhaps in response to them) If his [Charles Wesley's] hymns had been addressed to Pan or Apollo or some other heathen deity, or if they were written in ...
... George Sampson wrote, with an effective irony (not long after Cecil's remarks, and perhaps in response to them) If his [Charles Wesley's] hymns had been addressed to Pan or Apollo or some other heathen deity, or if they were written in ...
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... George Steiner, 'is to afford the text or music an indwelling clarity and life-force': Accurate recollection and resort in remembrance not only deepen our grasp of the work: they generate a shaping reciprocity between ourselves and that ...
... George Steiner, 'is to afford the text or music an indwelling clarity and life-force': Accurate recollection and resort in remembrance not only deepen our grasp of the work: they generate a shaping reciprocity between ourselves and that ...
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... George Burder (ed.), The Works of Isaac Watts (London, 1810), iv. 695. From a sermon by Grundtvig, Christmas Day, 1822; quoted in Christian Thodberg, 'Grundtvig the Hymnwriter', in Christian Thodberg and Anders Pontoppidan Thyssen (eds ...
... George Burder (ed.), The Works of Isaac Watts (London, 1810), iv. 695. From a sermon by Grundtvig, Christmas Day, 1822; quoted in Christian Thodberg, 'Grundtvig the Hymnwriter', in Christian Thodberg and Anders Pontoppidan Thyssen (eds ...
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George Wither and Others | 57 |
5 The SeventeenthCentury Anglican Tradition | 81 |
Puritan Psalms and Hymns | 103 |
7 Isaac Watts | 133 |
8 After Watts | 171 |
Montgomery Heber Keble | 300 |
13 The Victorian Hymn | 335 |
14 The Oxford Movement and the Revival of Ancient Hymnody | 355 |
15 Hymns Ancient and Modern | 387 |
16 Victorian Women HymnWriters | 422 |
17 American Hymnody | 461 |
18 Different Traditions | 486 |
19 Into the Twentieth Century | 511 |
9 John and Charles Wesley | 205 |
10 Charles Wesley and His Art | 230 |
11 After the Wesleys | 265 |
Select Bibliography | 533 |
Index | 547 |
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