John William Knapp

Fiddled out of Reason

Addison and the Rise of Hymnic Verse, 1687-1712

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Produktbeschreibung

Fiddled out of Reason examines Addison's poetic oeuvre in context of the nondevotional hymn, an underexplored genre of eighteenth-century verse. It concentrates on poems such as Addison's Cecilian odes, Rosamond, and five hymnic works for The Spectator, as well as Dryden's "Song for St Cecilia's Day" and "Alexander's Feast" and Pope's "Messiah."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lehigh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9781611462883
• ISBN-10: 1611462886
• Artikelnr.: 61810866

Autorenporträt

John Knapp is visiting scholar in the English Department at the University of New Mexico and instructor of English and humanities at Albuquerque Academy.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. 1687-1699: The Hymnic Absconds from the Chapel
1. "Let all Cecilia's Praise proclaim": The Hymnic and the St. Cecilia's
Day Odes
2. The Hymnic and The Cecilian Odes of Dryden and Addison
II. 1700-1712: The Hymnic Onstage and in The Spectator
3. Rosamond and The Road to the Spectator Hymns
4. The Spectator Turns to the Hymnic
5. The Spectator and the Progress of the Hymnic
III. July-October 1712: Addison's Hymnic Sequence
6. The Poems of the Spectator Sequence
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
About the Author