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.
Print Book, English, 1999
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, Oxford, Oxford, 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 552 pages ; 24 cm
9780198270027, 9780198267621, 019827002X, 0198267622
43874768
Discussing hymns : the state of the art
The singing of hymns, and the experience of metre
Laud unto the Lord : The whole booke of Psalmes
Keeping company with David's psalms : George Wither and others
The seventeenth-century Anglican tradition
The journey to Zion : Puritan psalms and hymns
Isaac Watts
After Watts
John and Charles Wesley
Charles Wesley and his art
After the Wesleys
The Romantic period : Montgomery, Heber, Keble
The Victorian hymn
The Oxford movement, and the revival of ancient hymnody
Hymns ancient and modern
Victorian women hymn-writers
American hymnody
Different traditions
Into the twentieth century