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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... experience live in each other: the hymn, and the Bible, create the understanding of God in Christ Jesus, of the ... experience which they express: they help to create that experience. In so doing, they are subject to all the endless ...
... experience live in each other: the hymn, and the Bible, create the understanding of God in Christ Jesus, of the ... experience which they express: they help to create that experience. In so doing, they are subject to all the endless ...
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... George Steiner, Real Presences (London, 1989), 9. Tzvetan Todorov, Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle (Minneapolis, 1984), 80. 45 2 The Singing of Hymns, and the Experience of Metre DISCUSSING HYMNS: THE STATE OF THE ART 21.
... George Steiner, Real Presences (London, 1989), 9. Tzvetan Todorov, Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogical Principle (Minneapolis, 1984), 80. 45 2 The Singing of Hymns, and the Experience of Metre DISCUSSING HYMNS: THE STATE OF THE ART 21.
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... Experience. of. Metre. The Begynner Of Meter Was God. Reading/singing. The argument of the previous chapter has been based on the idea that hymns may be considered as literary texts; but they are texts of a rather peculiar kind. There are ...
... Experience. of. Metre. The Begynner Of Meter Was God. Reading/singing. The argument of the previous chapter has been based on the idea that hymns may be considered as literary texts; but they are texts of a rather peculiar kind. There are ...
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... experience in life and death. The line, and the verse, and the idea, and the sacrifice, are all 'complete' at the end of the fourth line. Each of these metres, S.M., C.M., and L.M., can be used in double form, making stanzas of eight ...
... experience in life and death. The line, and the verse, and the idea, and the sacrifice, are all 'complete' at the end of the fourth line. Each of these metres, S.M., C.M., and L.M., can be used in double form, making stanzas of eight ...
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... experience in and through the metre. Here, and in all hymns, we may understand what Coleridge meant when he said that 'metre itself implies a passion'.65 Clearly not all expressions in metre are successful, and there are many hymns in ...
... experience in and through the metre. Here, and in all hymns, we may understand what Coleridge meant when he said that 'metre itself implies a passion'.65 Clearly not all expressions in metre are successful, and there are many hymns in ...
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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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