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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... written for a purpose or an occasion should be less effective than expressions of private emotion. The examples of Spenser, Milton, and (above all) of Shakespeare should make this clear, and it is only since the romantic period that we ...
... written for a purpose or an occasion should be less effective than expressions of private emotion. The examples of Spenser, Milton, and (above all) of Shakespeare should make this clear, and it is only since the romantic period that we ...
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... written, 'If hymns are only pious attempts at poems, if they are to be judged by the standards we apply to poetry, they usually make rather painful reading.' Nevertheless, he continues: Hymns primarily express an evangelical response to ...
... written, 'If hymns are only pious attempts at poems, if they are to be judged by the standards we apply to poetry, they usually make rather painful reading.' Nevertheless, he continues: Hymns primarily express an evangelical response to ...
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... writing, but something else in addition to writing. In the sense that it exists in a book, and that book may be held in the hand and read, the hymn is there as writing; but it is only there because it is also music, sacred song ...
... writing, but something else in addition to writing. In the sense that it exists in a book, and that book may be held in the hand and read, the hymn is there as writing; but it is only there because it is also music, sacred song ...
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... writing. Frequently hymn-writers compose their words for a specific tune, which they hear in their minds as they write. In these cases, the tune exists before the hymn: the hymn is then written down, chosen, given its place in the hymn ...
... writing. Frequently hymn-writers compose their words for a specific tune, which they hear in their minds as they write. In these cases, the tune exists before the hymn: the hymn is then written down, chosen, given its place in the hymn ...
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... written in our language has been done either by taking a very simple form, like the iambic pentameter, and constantly withdrawing from it, or taking no form at all, and constantly approximating to a very simple one. It is this contrast ...
... written in our language has been done either by taking a very simple form, like the iambic pentameter, and constantly withdrawing from it, or taking no form at all, and constantly approximating to a very simple one. It is this contrast ...
Inhalt
1 | |
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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