An Annotated Anthology of Hymns

Introduction; 1. Ancient and Medieval Hymns; 2. The Reformation: England and Germany; 3. The Seventeenth Century: Anglicans and Puritans; 4. Isaac Watts; 5. The Early Eighteenth Century; 6. Charles Wesley; 7. The Later Eighteenth Century; 8. The Romantic Movement and the Early Nineteeth Century; 9. The High Victorian Period; 10. Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century American Hymns; 11. The Early Twentieth Century; 12. The Mid-Twentieth Century and the Hymn Explosion

J. R. Watson is Emeritus Professor of English and former Public Orator of the University of Durham

"The editor skillfully undertakes to set the text in context, identify sources, and gloss and explicate the hymns and their significance.... This is an authoritative and thoroughly enjoyable book."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900