English Congregational Hymns in the Eighteenth Century

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 co

Author: Madeleine Forrell Marshall, Janet M. Todd
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.43d
ISBN: 9780813156170

About the Author

Madeleine F. Marshall is associate professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez.

Janet Todd is associate professor of English at Rutgers University.

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