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The Eighteenth-Century Hymn in England Donald Davie

The Eighteenth-Century Hymn in England By Donald Davie

The Eighteenth-Century Hymn in England by Donald Davie


Summary

Donald Davie is one of the foremost literary critics of his generation and a poet of some renown. His study of the eighteenth-century English hymn reclaims a rich and important literary genre which has been strangely neglected by literary critics.

The Eighteenth-Century Hymn in England Summary

The Eighteenth-Century Hymn in England by Donald Davie

Donald 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.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Introduction; 1. Dr Byrom of Manchester, FRS; 2. Isaac Watts: the axiomatic hymns; 3. Watts's atrocity hymns; 4. The 'Ending Up' of Isaac Watts; 5. The carnality of Charles Wesley; 6. Psalmody as translation; 7. Inwardness and the dictionary; 8. Christopher Smart and English rococo; 9. Smart's elegance; 10. The author of 'Amazing Grace'; 11. William Cowper and the plain style; Conclusion; Index.

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NLS9780521039567
9780521039567
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The Eighteenth-Century Hymn in England by Donald Davie
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Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2007-08-16
192
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