English Congregational Hymns In The Eighteenth Century

Author : Madeleine Forrell Marshall,Janet M. Todd
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780813194257

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English Congregational Hymns in the Eighteenth Century by Madeleine Forrell Marshall,Janet M. Todd Pdf

Historians 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 : Richard Arnold
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820469424

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English Hymns of the Nineteenth Century by Richard Arnold Pdf

English 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,Robert Stevenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:39015009430219

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English Hymnology in the Eighteenth Century by Donald Davie,Robert Stevenson Pdf

Author : Nalini Jain,John Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315504728

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Eighteenth Century English Poetry by Nalini Jain,John Richardson Pdf

This anthology of 18th-century English poetry is extensively annotated for a new generation of readers. It combines the scope of a period anthology with the detailed annotations of an authoritative single-author edition. Selected poets include John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, John Dryden, Jonathan Swift, Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, Joseph Addison, Alexander Pope and William Cowper. The guiding principle of the annotation is one of thoroughness: the editors concentrate on works where the meanings have changed, on primary allusions and on relevant details of social and political history.

Author : Paula R. Backscheider,Catherine E. Ingrassia
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 957 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421446738

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British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century by Paula R. Backscheider,Catherine E. Ingrassia Pdf

This anthology gathers 368 poems by 80 British women poets of the long eighteenth century. Few of these poems have been reprinted since originally published, and all are crucial to understanding fully the literary history of women writers. Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine E. Ingrassia demonstrate the enormous diversity of poetry produced during this time by organizing the poems in three broad and deliberately overlapping categories: by genre, establishing that women wrote in all of the forms that men did with equal mastery and creativity; by theme, offering a revisionary look at the range of topics these writers addressed, including war, ecology, friendship, religion, and the stages of life; and by the poems’ more specific focus on the women’s experiences as writers. Backscheider and Ingrassia have selected poems that represent the best work of skilled poets, creating a wonderful mix of canonical and little-known pieces. They include the complete texts of longer poems that are abridged or omitted in other collections. Their substantial part introductions, textual notes, bibliographical information, and biographical sketches situate the poets and their writings within the cultural and political milieu in which they appeared. To generate further scholarship on this subject, this essential anthology puts primary texts in front of students, scholars, and general readers. It fills the persistent need to document women’s poetic expression during the long eighteenth century and to rewrite the literary history of the period, a history from which women have largely been excluded.

Author : Joseph V. Carmichael
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725270855

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The Sung Theology of the English Particular Baptist Revival by Joseph V. Carmichael Pdf

Anne Steele (1717-1778) originally wrote her hymns to be sung in the Baptist congregation pastored by her father. The foremost female contemporary of hymn-writing giants Charles Wesley, John Newton, and William Cowper, her hymns are infused with spiritual sensitivity, theological depth, and raw emotion. She eventually published her hymns under the pseudonym, Theodosia, which means "God's Gift." She believed God had given her a gift to share. Steele's work was warmly received in her own day. Pastor and publishing pioneer of the modern English hymnal, John Rippon, included more than fifty of her hymns in the various topical sections of his wildly successful Selection of Hymns. Rippon's hymnal was popular on both sides of the Atlantic, but was especially influential during the nineteenth-century revival and renewal of English Particular Baptists. This book introduces Steele's hymns in the context of her life and times and of Rippon's hymnal. It illustrates that Steele's approach to hymn-writing is a model of biblical spirituality. Each hymn as printed in Rippon's hymnal, and thus sung by congregations and used as devotional literature, is considered. The sung theology of these congregations is a gift to the church universal and worth rediscovering in the twenty-first century.

Author : Cynthia Y. Aalders
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606086001

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To Express the Ineffable by Cynthia Y. Aalders Pdf

Anne Steele (1717-1778) was one of the most well-known and best-loved hymn-writers of the eighteenth century, and her hymns remained exceedingly popular until late in the nineteenth century, being reprinted regularly in hymnbooks throughout Britain and North America. She was the first major woman hymn-writer as well as the most popular Baptist hymn-writer in the history of the church. Despite this, she has been largely neglected as a subject of academic enquiry until now. This book aims to elucidate Steele's spirituality and to clarify her unique contribution to eighteenth-century hymnody. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, setting Steele's devotional expression in its theological, literary, and historical contexts, and providing comparison to other eighteenth-century figures. It uses archival sources to reconstruct her life and work, offers a close reading of her verse, and concludes that Steele made a significant and as yet underrated contribution to eighteenth-century devotional expression.

Author : Samuel J. Rogal
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Music
ISBN : 0810824167

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A General Introduction to Hymnody and Congregational Song by Samuel J. Rogal Pdf

Emphasizes the English hymn as a literary entity within denominational and historical contexts. The author sets forth a number of definitions for hymnody and congregational song, and then examines the development of the various forms in England and the United States. With a listing of works for further reading, an index to all hymns discussed, and chronology. ...valuable both for the historical information it provides and for its appreciative evaluation of the religious treasures enshrined in English-language hymns. --ADRIS NEWSLETTER

Author : Ruth Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995-05-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521402651

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Handel's Oratorios and Eighteenth-Century Thought by Ruth Smith Pdf

In this wide-r anging and challenging book, Ruth Smith claims that the words to Handel's oratorios reflect the events and ideas of their time and have far greater meaning than has hitherto been realised. She explores eighteenth-century literature, music, aesthetics, politics and religion to reveal Handel's texts as conduits for the thought and sensibility of their time. The book thus enriches our understanding of Handel, his times, and the close relationship between music and its intellectual contexts.

Author : M. Bigold
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137033574

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Women of Letters, Manuscript Circulation, and Print Afterlives in the Eighteenth Century by M. Bigold Pdf

Using unpublished manuscript writings, this book reinterprets material, social, literary, philosophical and religious contexts of women's letter-writing in the long 18th century. It shows how letter-writing functions as a form of literary manuscript exchange and argues for manuscript circulation as a method of engaging with the republic of letters.

Author : John William Knapp
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611461619

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Fiddled out of Reason by John William Knapp Pdf

Fiddled out of Reason examines Addison's poetic oeuvre in context of the nondevotional hymn, an underexplored genre of eighteenth-century verse. It concentrates on poems such as Addison's Cecilian odes, Rosamond, and five hymnic works for The Spectator, as well as Dryden's “Song for St Cecilia's Day” and “Alexander's Feast” and Pope's “Messiah.”

Author : Paula R. Backscheider
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801881692

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Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry by Paula R. Backscheider Pdf

Co-Winner, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association This major study offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major poetic genres and traditions. Rather than presenting a chronological survey, Paula R. Backscheider explores the forms in which women wrote and the uses to which they put those forms. Considering more than forty women in relation to canonical male writers of the same era, she concludes that women wrote in all of the genres that men did but often adapted, revised, and even created new poetic kinds from traditional forms. Backscheider demonstrates that knowledge of these women's poetry is necessary for an accurate and nuanced literary history. Within chapters on important canonical and popular verse forms, she gives particular attention to such topics as women's use of religious poetry to express candid ideas about patriarchy and rape; the continuing evolution and important role of the supposedly antiquarian genre of the friendship poetry; same-sex desire in elegy by women as well as by men; and the status of Charlotte Smith as a key figure of the long eighteenth century, not only as a Romantic-era poet.

Author : James Bryant Reeves
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108835909

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Godless Fictions in the Eighteenth Century by James Bryant Reeves Pdf

Documents eighteenth-century literary representations of atheism, arguing that opposition to atheism generated unique forms of religious belief.

Author : Graham Beynon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567670151

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Isaac Watts by Graham Beynon Pdf

Isaac Watts was an important but relatively unexamined figure and this volume offers a description of his theology, specifically identifying his position on reason and passion as foundational. The book shows how Watts modified a Puritan inherence on both topics in the light of the thought of his day. In particular there is an examination of how he both took on board and reacted against aspects of Enlightenment and sentimentalist thought. Watts' position on these foundational issued of reason and passion are then shown to lie behind his more practical works to revive the church. Graham Beynon examines the motivation for Watts' work in writing hymns, and the way in which he wrote them; and discusses his preaching and prayer. In each of these practical topics Watts's position is compared to earlier Puritans to show the difference his thinking on reason and passion makes in practice. Isaac Watts is shown to have a coherent position on the foundational issues of reason and passion which drove his view of revival of religion.

Author : Paul Goring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139456760

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The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture by Paul Goring Pdf

The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture explores the burgeoning eighteenth-century fascination with the human body as an eloquent, expressive object. This wide-ranging study examines the role of the body within a number of cultural arenas - particularly oratory, the theatre and the novel - and charts the efforts of projectors and reformers who sought to exploit the textual potential of the body for the public assertion of modern politeness. Paul Goring shows how diverse writers and performers including David Garrick, James Fordyce, Samuel Richardson, Sarah Fielding and Laurence Sterne were involved in the construction of new ideals of physical eloquence - bourgeois, sentimental ideals which stood in contrast to more patrician, classical bodily modes. Through innovative readings of fiction and contemporary manuals on acting and public speaking, Goring reveals the ways in which the human body was treated as an instrument for the display of sensibility and polite values.