The English hymn : a critical and historical study
Why do people sing hymns? Are hymns poetry? What makes a good hymn? The author discusses the nature of hymns and their particular appeal, examines the English hymn as a literary form, and systematically describes its development through four centuries, from the Reformation to the mid-twentieth century
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Clarendon Press ; Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford, New York, ©1997
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9780191520488, 9780191600784, 9780198270027, 9781281989284, 9786611989286, 0191520489, 0191600784, 019827002X, 1281989282, 6611989285
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1. Discussing Hymns: The State of the Art
2. The Singing of Hymns, and the Experience of Metre
3. Laud unto the Lord: The Whole Booke of Psalmes
4. Keeping Company with David's Psalms: George Wither and Others
5. The Seventeenth-Century Anglican Tradition
6. The Journey to Zion: Puritan Psalms and Hymns
7. Isaac Watts
8. After Watts
9. John and Charles Wesley
10. Charles Wesley and His Art
11. After the Wesleys
12. The Romantic Period: Montgomery, Heber, Keble
13. The Victorian Hymn
14. The Oxford Movement, and the Revival of Ancient Hymnody
15. Hymns Ancient and Modern
16. Victorian Women Hymn-Writers
17. American Hymnody
18. Different Traditions
19. Into the Twentieth Century
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