The English hymn : a critical and historical study / J.R. Watson
1999, First Paperback Edition. Oxford New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford Univ. Press. Provenance: Bookplate John F. Ashby. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #402492
Physical description; x, 552 pages, 23.5 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-546) and index. Contents; 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. Subjects; Hymns, English History and criticism. RELIGION Institutions & Organizations. RELIGION Christian Rituals & Practice Worship & Liturgy. Hymns, English. Hymnology. Devotional Theology. Hymn Writers.
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