English Congregational Hymns in the Eighteenth Century

by Janet M Todd, Madeleine Forell Marshall, Janet M. Todd

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813156173
• ISBN13: 9780813156170
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"