River Hymns
Author | : Tyree Daye |
Publisher | : Apr Honickman 1st Book Prize |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : POETRY |
ISBN | : 9780983300854 |
River Hymns is the lyrical journey of a young black man's spiritual reckoning with his family history.
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Author | : Tyree Daye |
Publisher | : Apr Honickman 1st Book Prize |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : POETRY |
ISBN | : 9780983300854 |
River Hymns is the lyrical journey of a young black man's spiritual reckoning with his family history.
Author | : Christopher N. Phillips |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2018-08-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1421425939 |
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.
Author | : Charles Wesley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1749 |
Genre | : Hymns, English |
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Author | : Helen Steiner Rice |
Publisher | : Fleming H Revell Company |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780800718466 |
No Matter What the celebration or event, Helen Steiner Rice has the ability to touch our hearts through her inspirational poetry.
Author | : Peter Cole |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2017-05-23 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0374173885 |
"A selection of Cole's award-winning poetry and translations together with new poems"--
Author | : Barry B. Powell |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2022-08-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520391691 |
The ancient Greek hymnic tradition translated beautifully and accessibly. The hymn—as poetry, as craft, as a tool for worship and philosophy—was a vital art form throughout antiquity. Although the Homeric Hymns have long been popular, other equally important collections have not been readily accessible to students eager to learn about ancient poetry. In reading hymns, we also gain valuable insight into life in the classical world. In this collection, early Homeric Hymns of uncertain authorship appear along with the carefully wrought hymns of the great Hellenistic poet and courtier Callimachus; the mystical writings attributed to the legendary poet Orpheus, written as Christianity was taking over the ancient world; and finally, the hymns of Proclus, the last great pagan philosopher of antiquity, from the fifth century AD, whose intellectual influence throughout western culture has been profound. Greek Poems to the Gods distills over a thousand years of the ancient Greek hymnic tradition into a single volume. Acclaimed translator Barry B. Powell brings these fabulous texts to life in English, hewing closely to the poetic beauty of the original Greek. His superb introductions and notes give readers essential context, making the hymns as accessible to a beginner approaching them for the first time as to an advanced student continuing to explore their secrets. Brilliant illustrations from ancient art enliven and enrichen the experience of reading these poems.
Author | : James Montgomery |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1854 |
Genre | : Christian poetry, English |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sir Philip Perring (4th bart.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Augustus M. Toplady |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2018-03-22 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781946145352 |
This collection contains 133 lyrical poems of Augustus Toplady. The first section was written during his early years while at college, and the second part was written during the remainder of his life. Included in this collection is the hymn lyrics of "Rock of Ages" which was originally titled "A Living and Dying Prayer for the Holiest Believer in the World." Also the lyrics of "Full Assurance" which begins with "A debtor to mercy alone." Toplady's theology is regarded to be Calvinistic, which he stood for during the controversies of his time. The text of this edition is from Daniel Sedgwick's edition of 1860.