ENGLISH

Daily Telegraph Book of Hymns

By Ian Bradley

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year
2006
ISBN
9781441139696, 9780826482822
LCC
BV315 .B67 2005
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15862009 bytes)
Pages
530\530
Time added
2023-08-20 03:50:07
English.Hymns

Description

Here are the full original texts of 150 of the best loved hymns in the English language. Each is accompanied by a fascinating commentary, giving biographical details of the author (such as the Calvinist creator of Rock of 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. Each hymn is prefaced by an urbanely written and agreeably subjective commentary with a wealth of anecdotes and a few ribald parodies. This charming book should also be required reading for all those responsible for choosing hymns in church. Ian Bradley writes with wit, elegance and charm and is quite exceptionally knowledgeable about his subject.

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