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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... sound of metre calls up the ghosts of the past and it is difficult to sing one's own tune against that choir.55 The presence of a strong metre may actually be an advantage: hymns may be likened in this respect to ballads, where the ...
... sound of metre calls up the ghosts of the past and it is difficult to sing one's own tune against that choir.55 The presence of a strong metre may actually be an advantage: hymns may be likened in this respect to ballads, where the ...
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... sounds calling to each other across the middle of the line; and in the very centre are the two words 'glory fills ... sound? wind? air? space?—with light above all, perhaps, but with all of these, and more). We may find the same kind ...
... sounds calling to each other across the middle of the line; and in the very centre are the two words 'glory fills ... sound? wind? air? space?—with light above all, perhaps, but with all of these, and more). We may find the same kind ...
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... sound and connected in sense. The meaning is in the echoing sounds: it is a rhymer's way of seeing the gospel. Similarly Charles Wesley will use his rhymes, especially in couplet forms, to shape the idea: Lord, that I may learn of thee ...
... sound and connected in sense. The meaning is in the echoing sounds: it is a rhymer's way of seeing the gospel. Similarly Charles Wesley will use his rhymes, especially in couplet forms, to shape the idea: Lord, that I may learn of thee ...
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... sound and syntax—indeed that those very liberties add the interest to language, and also draw attention to the spiritual insight which it is Charles Wesley's purpose to communicate. Certain metres are particularly frequent. They are ...
... sound and syntax—indeed that those very liberties add the interest to language, and also draw attention to the spiritual insight which it is Charles Wesley's purpose to communicate. Certain metres are particularly frequent. They are ...
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... sound: Rejoice! This is from 1 Corinthians 15: 52–4, which thrillingly takes up the reference to 'Mortals' in verse 1 ('Mortals, give thanks and sing ... '): The trumpet ... shall sound and when this mortal shall have put on immortality ...
... sound: Rejoice! This is from 1 Corinthians 15: 52–4, which thrillingly takes up the reference to 'Mortals' in verse 1 ('Mortals, give thanks and sing ... '): The trumpet ... shall sound and when this mortal shall have put on immortality ...
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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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