Thanks--I hadn't come across this before. --Beth
At 01:49 PM 3/5/2005 -0600, you wrote:
> From the 50% off sale catalog at http://www.colophonbooks.com/
>
>175. (HYMNS). ENGLAND , Martha Winburn and John Sparrow. Hymns
>Unbidden: Donne, Herbert, Blake, Emily Dickinson and the Hymnographers. New
>York : New York Public Library, 1966, octavo, cloth. (x), 153pp. First
>Edition. From the Foreword by David V. Erdman: The general subject of this
>group of studies is the hymn movement of the eighteenth century. Fathered by
>the Puritan hymnodist Isaac Watts, this movement is seen to have been
>nourished - more than anyone had realized - by transfusions from Herbert,
>Donne, and other metaphysical poets; to have beenbrought to immense power
>and range by the Wesleys; and to have exerted no simple influence upon the
>modes and tunes of subsequent English and American poets." With a few
>illustrations and a detailed index. Fine copy. $25.00
>
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Beth Quitslund
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Ohio University
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