Title: The English hymn : a critical and historical study /
Authors: Watson, J. R. 1934-
Publisher: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Hymns, English History and criticism
Contents: 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 Hyms -- Isaac Watts -- After Watts -- John and Charles Wesley -- 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.