All Together Now
Richard Jenkyns, 11 December 1997
Abide with Me: The World of Victorian Hymns
by Ian Bradley.
SCM, 299 pp., £30, June 1997,9780334026921 Show More
by Ian Bradley.
SCM, 299 pp., £30, June 1997,
The English Hymn: A Critical and Historical Study
by J.R. Watson.
Oxford, 552 pp., £65, July 1997,0 19 826762 2 Show More
by J.R. Watson.
Oxford, 552 pp., £65, July 1997,
“... sure whether he should be making high claims for them or confessing to a guilty fondness. J.R. Watson’s The English Hymn is a far more ambitious book, charting the history of the English hymn from its origins in the metrical psalmody of Sternhold and Hopkins in the 16th century through almost to the present day. It is a work of distinction, written with ... ”
