River Hymns
Title | River Hymns PDF eBook |
Author | Tyree Daye |
Publisher | Apr Honickman 1st Book Prize |
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.
The Hymnal
Title | The Hymnal PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher N. Phillips |
Publisher | JHU Press |
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.
Awake My Soul and Sing
Title | Awake My Soul and Sing PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Steiner Rice |
Publisher | Fleming H Revell Company |
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.
Hymns & Qualms
Title | Hymns & Qualms PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Cole |
Publisher | |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2017-05-23 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0374173885 |
"A selection of Cole's award-winning poetry and translations together with new poems"--
The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems
Title | The Thought of God in Hymns and Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Lucian Hosmer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 1885 |
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Greek Poems to the Gods
Title | Greek Poems to the Gods PDF eBook |
Author | Barry B. Powell |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
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.
Sacred Poems and Hymns
Title | Sacred Poems and Hymns PDF eBook |
Author | James Montgomery |
Publisher | |
Pages | 536 |
Release | 1854 |
Genre | Christian poetry, English |
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