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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
hittier and Lathbury already alluded to; but the pursuit of these inclinations led to the edge of a precipice. For, unhappily, the influences at work in uniting the breadth and dignity of older song with the warmth and colour of the later generation led very easily from sentimental ornateness to tawdry sensationalism. The decline in hymn-writing from Bernard of Clairvaux by way of the Wesleys to Phoebe Cary, and in composition from the Gregorian chants via Lowell Mason and Bradbury to P. P. Bliss, reached the popular descensus Averni in the Moody and Sankey gospel hymns. The banalities of evangelistic song have not been offset by a corresponding output of finer and purer music; they have only been held in partial check by the restraining influence of the more excellent recent collections of standard hymns for public worship. Here the matter rests, and here it may rest until the influence of some great religious awakening leads to a new upwelling of religious song. Chapter
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
ye, Edgar Wilson Bill Arp so called, 352 Billings, Wm., 574 Billy boy, 511 Biography of Karl Marx, a, 600 Bird of paradise, the, 281 Bird, R. M., 268 Birds, the, 460 Birrell, Augustine, 26 Birth of a nation, the, 267 Bishop, W. H., 164 Bismarck, 41 Bits of travel, 164 Bitter sweet, 38 Bixby, Horace, 2 Blaettermann, George, 478, 479 Blaine, J. G., 15 Blair, Robert, 471 Blair, William, 386 Blake, E. V., 168 Bledsoe, A. T., 226 n., 229, 229 n 339 Bliss, P. P., 500 Blix, 93 Blodgett, S., Jr., 432 Bloodgood, Clara, 283 Blount, J. H., 165 B. L. T. See Taylor, Bert Leston Blue Mouse, the, 284 Blumgarten, S., 603-4 Boas, Franz, 617 n. Boat life in Egypt and Nubia, 163 Bob der Sonderling, 582 Bode, 255 n. Boeckh, 460, 461, 465 Boehme, 529 Boise, 596 Bok, E. W., 315 Boker, George H., 38, 40, 41, 48, 268, 269 Bollman, Erick, 432 Bonn (University), 462, 465 Bonner, Robert, 66 Bonner, T. D., 152 Bonni