English Congregational Hymns in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Madeleine Forell Marshall
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780813132990
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Author: Madeleine Forell Marshall
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780813132990
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Madeleine Forrell Marshall
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2021-12-14
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 0813194253
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHistorians of the English congregational hymn, focusing on its literary or theological aspects, have usually found the genre out of step with the rationalist era that produced it. This book takes a more balanced approach to the work of four writers and concludes that only eighteenth-century Britain, with its understanding of public verse, common truth, and the utility of poetry, could have invented the English hymn as we know it. The early hymns sought to inspire, teach, stir, and entertain congregations. The essential purpose shifted slightly in line with each poet's setting and in accord with the poetic thought of his day. For Isaac Watts's Independents, powerful traditional imagery was appropriate. Charles Wesley's enthusiasm proceeded from and served the spirit of the revival. John Newton's prophetic vision particularly suited the impoverished community at Olney. William Cowper's masterful handling of formal conventions and his idiosyncratic personal hymns reflect his poetic, rather than clerical, vocation. Despite such temporal variations, the great poetry by each man displays themes of general Christian relevance, suggesting common experience, showing normative features of the genre, and bearing a complex and intriguing relationship to secular literature.
Author: Donald Davie
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 167
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 572
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Arnold
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780820469423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnglish Hymns of the Nineteenth Century brings together for the first time the most popular and widely used English hymns from that period, continuing the work of its foregoing volume, English Hymns of the Eighteenth Century, the genre's formative period. This annotated and edited collection of nearly 200 hymns (with author introductions and a general historical introduction) will be of inestimable value to scholars, students, and laypersons from several disciplines and interests: from hymnology to church and social history and theology, from political science to literature to popular culture. Hymns were the most widely read and memorized verbal structures from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - and in the nineteenth century the hymn became not only the property of dissenters, but also of representatives from the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church. This anthology, therefore, provides unique and highly significant insights into the culture, beliefs, and habits of thought of a people and their spiritual leaders.
Author: Donald Davie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-08-16
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780521039567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDonald Davie is the foremost literary critics of his generation and one of its leading poets. His career has been marked by a series of challenging critical interventions. The eighteenth century is the great age of the English hymn though these powerful and popular texts have been marginalized in the formation of the conventional literary canon. These are poems which have been put to the text of experience by a wider public than that generally envisaged by literary criticism, and have been kept alive by congregations in every generation. Davie's study of the eighteenth-century hymn and metrical psalm brings to light a body of literature forgotten as poetry: work by Charles Wesley and Christopher Smart, Isaac Watts and William Cowper, together with several poets unjustly neglected, such as the mysterious John Byron.
Author: Donald Davie
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 96
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Published: 1936
Total Pages: 142
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 480
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charlotte Sussman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-04-18
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0745637205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis engaging book introduces new readers of eighteenth-century texts to some of the major works, authors, and debates of a key period of literary history. Rather than simply providing a chronological survey of the era, this book analyzes the impact of significant cultural developments on literary themes and forms - including urbanization, colonial, and mercantile expansion, the emergence of the "public sphere," and changes in sex and gender roles. In eighteenth-century Britain, many of the things we take for granted about modern life were shockingly new: women appeared for the first time on stage; the novel began to dominate the literary marketplace; people entertained the possibility that all human beings were created equal, and tentatively proposed that reason could triumph over superstition; ministers became more powerful than kings, and the consumer emerged as a political force. Eighteenth-Century English Literature: 1660-1789 explores these issues in relation to well-known works by such authors as Defoe, Swift, Pope, Richardson, Gray, and Sterne, while also bringing attention to less familiar figures, such as Charlotte Smith, Mary Leapor, and Olaudah Equiano. It offers both an ideal introduction for students and a fresh approach for those with research interests in the period.