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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... religious emotion. But because they have sometimes been written by people capable of a poetic response to experience ... religion, and that is the imagination. Coleridge, who was at different times both preacher and poet, would have ...
... religious emotion. But because they have sometimes been written by people capable of a poetic response to experience ... religion, and that is the imagination. Coleridge, who was at different times both preacher and poet, would have ...
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... religious sensibility is expressed through, and is inextricable from, the language which is used. Dr Johnson, as we ... religion creates the moment of perception: Charles Wesley's image of the swimmer carried out into the fathomless sea ...
... religious sensibility is expressed through, and is inextricable from, the language which is used. Dr Johnson, as we ... religion creates the moment of perception: Charles Wesley's image of the swimmer carried out into the fathomless sea ...
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... religious toleration, and the rise of mercantilism. These things are more important than the personalia which are often offered as a background to a writer's hymns. This book traces the history of the English hymn since the Reformation ...
... religious toleration, and the rise of mercantilism. These things are more important than the personalia which are often offered as a background to a writer's hymns. This book traces the history of the English hymn since the Reformation ...
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... religious speech, as Ben Jonson suggested: But now I'le raise againe my drooping head. And singing say, and saying sing for ever,— 49 In congregational worship the text exists, often inextricably united to the music, in a way which ...
... religious speech, as Ben Jonson suggested: But now I'le raise againe my drooping head. And singing say, and saying sing for ever,— 49 In congregational worship the text exists, often inextricably united to the music, in a way which ...
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... religious societies, of the 'gathered church'. I have chosen to begin with Sternhold and Hopkins and The Whole Booke of Psalmes. This is an approach which is counter to the received opinion that metrical psalmody is essentially ...
... religious societies, of the 'gathered church'. I have chosen to begin with Sternhold and Hopkins and The Whole Booke of Psalmes. This is an approach which is counter to the received opinion that metrical psalmody is essentially ...
Inhalt
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22 | |
42 | |
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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