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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... Light and joy receiveth. The 'meaning' of this hymn comes through the assertive rhymes and the short lines, which boldly remind us that the word of God abides and guides, that to believe is to receive. All four words are verbs, similar ...
... Light and joy receiveth. The 'meaning' of this hymn comes through the assertive rhymes and the short lines, which boldly remind us that the word of God abides and guides, that to believe is to receive. All four words are verbs, similar ...
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... light; After winter, spring; After dying, life: Alleluia! 6.5.6.5., a little more expanded, is like C.M., in that it is often divided by a heavy caesura at the end of line 2, although the short line keeps it simpler, and it is trochaic ...
... light; After winter, spring; After dying, life: Alleluia! 6.5.6.5., a little more expanded, is like C.M., in that it is often divided by a heavy caesura at the end of line 2, although the short line keeps it simpler, and it is trochaic ...
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... light Fly at your Lord's command, Assist our song, Or else the theme Too high doth seem For mortal tongue. A consideration of these metrical effects, and a study of the commonest verse forms, suggests that the hymn text works through ...
... light Fly at your Lord's command, Assist our song, Or else the theme Too high doth seem For mortal tongue. A consideration of these metrical effects, and a study of the commonest verse forms, suggests that the hymn text works through ...
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... light, Through all the world her watch is keeping, And rests not now by day or night. This verse signals a great change in point of view. The second line, in particular, pictures the earth as rolling onwards into light, so that the ...
... light, Through all the world her watch is keeping, And rests not now by day or night. This verse signals a great change in point of view. The second line, in particular, pictures the earth as rolling onwards into light, so that the ...
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... light ... And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night' (Genesis 1: 3–5); it ends with all creatures owning the rule of God, as they do in Revelation 5: 13: And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and ...
... light ... And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night' (Genesis 1: 3–5); it ends with all creatures owning the rule of God, as they do in Revelation 5: 13: And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and ...
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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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