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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789680203321

Autore

Bradley Ian C.

Titolo

The Daily Telegraph book of hymns / / Ian Bradley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Continuum, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

1-4411-3969-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (530 p.)

Disciplina

264.23

Soggetti

Hymns, English

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Hymns; Bibliography; Index of First Lines; Index of Authors, Translators and Composers; C; H; P; W

Sommario/riassunto

Here are the full original texts of 150 of the best loved hymns in the English language, from the time of the Early Church to the 20th century. Each is acompanied by a fascinatintg commentary, giving biographical details of the aurthgor, such as the Calvinist creator of Rocvk oif Ages who once calculated that the average human sins 2,522,880,000 times; notes on the circumstances in which the hymn was written; and variant versions including the First World War infantry adaptation of The Church's One Foundation. 150 hymns each prefaced by an urbanely written and agreeably subjective commentary w