Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Ancient and Medieval Hymns
2: The Reformation: England and Germany
3: The Seventeenth Century: Anglicans and Puritans
4: Isaac Watts
5: The Early Eighteenth Century
6: Charles Wesley
7: The Later Eighteenth Century
8: The Romantic Movement and the Early Nineteeth Century
9: The High Victorian Period
10: Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Hymns
11: The Early Twentieth Century
12: The Mid-Twentieth Century and the Hymn Explosion

About the Author

J. R. Watson is Emeritus Professor of English and former Public Orator of the University of Durham

Reviews

`Review from previous edition 'Invaluable ... There is much to enjoy here'.'
Glyn Paflin, Times Literary Supplement
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