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1 online resource (x, 552 pages) |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-546) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Hymns, English -- History and criticism
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RELIGION -- Institutions & Organizations.
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RELIGION -- Christian Rituals & Practice -- Worship & Liturgy.
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Hymns, English
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Hymnen.
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Engels.
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Englisch
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Geistliches Lied
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Geschichte
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Kirchenlied
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Lyrik
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Hymne -- englische -- Geschichte
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Englisch
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Hymne
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Poésie anglaise
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1453-20e siècle
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Hymnes anglais
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Hymnes
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Réforme protestante
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Großbritannien
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Hymns.
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
96043077 |
| ISBN |
9780191520488 |
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0191520489 |
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9780191600784 |
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0191600784 |
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9780198270027 |
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019827002X |
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1281989282 |
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9781281989284 |
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9786611989286 |
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6611989285 |
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