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Poetry in Hymns Volume VIII (ISBN: 0-9545046-7-4) Published by Grasshopper Publishing Limited, 2007 Price: £16.00 each (inc. p. & p.) Orders for two or more books will qualify for a reduction, each book being priced at £14.00, and further discounts are available for group purchases on request. Poetry in Hymns Volume VIII includes a particular emphasis on poetry, which the Scottish philosopher, writer, historian and poet, Thomas Carlyle called ‘musical thought’. It is appropriate, therefore, that the Preface gives a diagnosis of the role of poetry in the development of Christian hymns. Our chosen hymn-writers are: Joseph Addison; William Blake; Thomas Carlyle; Sydney Bertram Carter; Gilbert Keith Chesterton; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; William Cowper; Percy Dearmer; John Donne; John Dryden; Eleanor Farjeon; St. Francis of Assisi; John Hampden Gurney; Reginald Heber; George Herbert; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Gerard Manley Hopkins; John Keble; Thomas Ken; Henry Francis Lyte; John Milton; John Henry Newman; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; John Greenleaf Whittier; Christopher Wordsworth; William Wordsworth; Isaac Watts and these are the chosen hymns for this volume: A safe stronghold our God is still - All creatures of our God and King And did those feet in ancient time - Awake, awake! ye heavenly choir Begin, my tongue, some heavenly theme - Creator Spirit, by whose aid Father, who on man dost shower - Firmly I believe and truly God of mercy, God of grace - Godhead here in hiding, whom I do adore Holy, holy, holy, Lord God almighty! - I danced in the morning Immortal Love, for ever full - Jesus, where’er thy people meet King of Glory, King of peace - Let us with a gladsome mind Lord of all being, throned afar - Morning has broken New every morning is the love - O day of rest and gladness O God of earth and altar - O sweeter than the marriage-feast Strong Son of God, immortal Love - The spacious firmament on high Up to the throne of God is borne - Wilt thou forgive that sin, where I begun Yes, God is good in earth and sky At the back of this volume, there is a Supplement of Christian Poetry ‘written by poets already listed …, poems which for the most part were not written as hymns and which, in most cases, did not become hymns’. The complimentary CD accompanying this volume was recorded at St. Patrick’s Church, Patterdale in Cumbria with Mike Town (from Eton College, near Windsor) at the organ and members of The Penrith Singers, under the direction of Colin Marston. |
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