- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1 Discussing Hymns: The State of the Art
- 2 The Singing of Hymns, and the Experience of Metre
- 3 Laud Unto the Lord: The Whole Booke of Psalmes
- 4 Keeping Company With David's Psalms: George Wither and Others
- 5 The Seventeenth‐Century Anglican Tradition
- 6 The Journey to Zion: Puritan Psalms and Hymns
- 7 Isaac Watts
- 8 After Watts
- 9 John and Charles Wesley
- 10 Charles Wesley and His Art
- 11 After the Wesleys
- 12 The Romantic Period: Montgomery, Heber, Keble
- 13 The Victorian Hymn
- 14 The Oxford Movement, and the Revival of Ancient Hymnody
- 15 Hymns Ancient and Modern
- 16 Victorian Women Hymn‐Writers
- 17 American Hymnody
- 18 Different Traditions
- 19 Into the Twentieth Century
- Select Bibliography
- Index
After Watts
After Watts
- Chapter:
- (p.171) 8 After Watts
- Source:
- The English Hymn
- Author(s):
J. R. Watson (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Discusses the hymns of Watts’ contemporaries, and those who were influenced by him. Reviews Joseph Addison and The Spectator; the response to Newtonian physics; and the continuity of the Dissenting tradition in the hymns of Philip Doddridge, Anne Steele, and Benjamin Beddome.
Keywords: Addison, Baptists, Beddome, Dissent, Doddridge, Independents, Steele
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- 1 Discussing Hymns: The State of the Art
- 2 The Singing of Hymns, and the Experience of Metre
- 3 Laud Unto the Lord: The Whole Booke of Psalmes
- 4 Keeping Company With David's Psalms: George Wither and Others
- 5 The Seventeenth‐Century Anglican Tradition
- 6 The Journey to Zion: Puritan Psalms and Hymns
- 7 Isaac Watts
- 8 After Watts
- 9 John and Charles Wesley
- 10 Charles Wesley and His Art
- 11 After the Wesleys
- 12 The Romantic Period: Montgomery, Heber, Keble
- 13 The Victorian Hymn
- 14 The Oxford Movement, and the Revival of Ancient Hymnody
- 15 Hymns Ancient and Modern
- 16 Victorian Women Hymn‐Writers
- 17 American Hymnody
- 18 Different Traditions
- 19 Into the Twentieth Century
- Select Bibliography
- Index
