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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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The Seraph. A Collection of Divine Hymns and Poems. From the Best Authors
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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The seraph, a collection of divine hymns and poems from the best authors
Author: Seraph
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Category : Hymns, English
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Category : Hymns, English
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Fiddled out of Reason
Author: John William Knapp
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611461618
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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Fiddled out of Reason is a study of several poems spanning the life and career of Joseph Addison, who, along with John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Ambrose Philips, Isaac Watts, and many British poets of the turn of the eighteenth century, helped to cultivate a broad new current of nonliturgical "hymnic" verse that became immensely popular across that century, though it has eluded critical notice until now. The texts the book examines—Addison's St. Cecilia's Day odes (1692, 1699), his libretto for the opera Rosamond (1707), and a sequence of five hymnic works in The Spectator (1712)—precede by twenty-five years John Wesley's publication of the first hymnal for use in the Church of England. The book argues that "secular" hymnic works such as Addison's emerged alongside religio-political controversies and anxieties about British national identity, morality, and expressions of "enthusiastic" passions. Church and Tory interests largely rejected hymnic verse, claiming it would only "fiddle" unwitting readers "out of their reason" and reignite the dangerous fervor of Revolution-era Nonconformity and Dissent. As is evident from his poetry, Addison, a moderate Whig, ardently opposed this view, arguing that the hymnic could in fact be a portal to national and individual amelioration. After an introductory chapter exploring period conceptions of hymnic poetry and the highly contested term "hymn" itself, the argument proceeds through three sections to trace the hymnic's upward trajectory through Addison's early, mid-period, and mature verse. The book devotes the lion's share of its attention to the last of these three, which includes the five-poem Spectator sequence (a poem from the sequence, "The Spacious Firmament on High," will be familiar to many readers). Indeed, in addition to offering new readings of hymnic works by Dryden and Pope, Fiddled out of Reason provides the first extended critical treatment of these five important poems. Publication of the book coincides with the 300th anniversary of Addison's death and with the appearance of a new Oxford edition of Addison's nonperiodical writings.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611461618
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Fiddled out of Reason is a study of several poems spanning the life and career of Joseph Addison, who, along with John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Ambrose Philips, Isaac Watts, and many British poets of the turn of the eighteenth century, helped to cultivate a broad new current of nonliturgical "hymnic" verse that became immensely popular across that century, though it has eluded critical notice until now. The texts the book examines—Addison's St. Cecilia's Day odes (1692, 1699), his libretto for the opera Rosamond (1707), and a sequence of five hymnic works in The Spectator (1712)—precede by twenty-five years John Wesley's publication of the first hymnal for use in the Church of England. The book argues that "secular" hymnic works such as Addison's emerged alongside religio-political controversies and anxieties about British national identity, morality, and expressions of "enthusiastic" passions. Church and Tory interests largely rejected hymnic verse, claiming it would only "fiddle" unwitting readers "out of their reason" and reignite the dangerous fervor of Revolution-era Nonconformity and Dissent. As is evident from his poetry, Addison, a moderate Whig, ardently opposed this view, arguing that the hymnic could in fact be a portal to national and individual amelioration. After an introductory chapter exploring period conceptions of hymnic poetry and the highly contested term "hymn" itself, the argument proceeds through three sections to trace the hymnic's upward trajectory through Addison's early, mid-period, and mature verse. The book devotes the lion's share of its attention to the last of these three, which includes the five-poem Spectator sequence (a poem from the sequence, "The Spacious Firmament on High," will be familiar to many readers). Indeed, in addition to offering new readings of hymnic works by Dryden and Pope, Fiddled out of Reason provides the first extended critical treatment of these five important poems. Publication of the book coincides with the 300th anniversary of Addison's death and with the appearance of a new Oxford edition of Addison's nonperiodical writings.
Catalogues of Items for Auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 1850-1880
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Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Manuscripts, Upon Papyrus, Vellum, and Paper, in Various Languages
Author: Thorpe, Thomas, firm, booksellers, London
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1468
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1468
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W. Appleby's general catalogue of new & second-hand books
Author: W. Appleby
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Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Bookseller's catalogues
Author: Thomas Dash
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Languages : en
Pages : 642
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Languages : en
Pages : 642
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The Shelf List of the Union Theological Seminary Library in New York City
Author: Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.). Library
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
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The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 1002
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Languages : en
Pages : 1002
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