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Languages : en
Pages : 274
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A Miscellaneous Collection of Hymns
Author: A catalogue of a miscellaneous collection of music ... on sale
Author: Calkin and BuddThe Hymnal
Author: Christopher N. PhillipsPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421425939
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Understanding the culture of living with hymnbooks offers new insight into the histories of poetry, literacy, and religious devotion. It stands barely three inches high, a small brick of a book. The pages are skewed a bit, and evidence of a small handprint remains on the worn, cheap leather covers that don’t quite close. The book bears the marks of considerable use. But why—and for whom—was it made? Christopher N. Phillips’s The Hymnal is the first study to reconstruct the practices of reading and using hymnals, which were virtually everywhere in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Isaac Watts invented a small, words-only hymnal at the dawn of the eighteenth century. For the next two hundred years, such hymnals were their owners’ constant companions at home, school, church, and in between. They were children's first books, slaves’ treasured heirlooms, and sources of devotional reading for much of the English-speaking world. Hymnals helped many people learn to memorize poetry and to read; they provided space to record family memories, pass notes in church, and carry everything from railroad tickets to holy cards to business letters. In communities as diverse as African Methodists, Reform Jews, Presbyterians, Methodists, Roman Catholics, and Unitarians, hymnals were integral to religious and literate life. An extended historical treatment of the hymn as a read text and media form, rather than a source used solely for singing, this book traces the lives people lived with hymnals, from obscure schoolchildren to Emily Dickinson. Readers will discover a wealth of connections between reading, education, poetry, and religion in Phillips’s lively accounts of hymnals and their readers.
The Land of the Veda: Being Personal Reminiscences of India
Author: William ButlerPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368160443
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800
Author: George WatsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521079341
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1698
Book Description
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
The American Catalogue
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.
Catalogue of the Library of the Sacred Harmonic Society
Author: Sacred Harmonic Society (London, England). LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Church music
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Catalogue of the library
Author: Sacred harmonic societyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Catalogue of the Library of the Sacred Harmonic Society
Author: Sacred Harmonic Society (London)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 344
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The Songs of Robert Burns
Author: Robert BurnsPublisher:
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Category : Ballads, Scots
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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