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America the Beautiful : A Sung Prayer of the Christian Tradition
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rogal, Samuel J.
- Series:
- History of Christian Hymnody
- History of Christian Hymnody ; v.13
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bates, Katharine Lee, 1859-1929. America the beautiful.
- Hymns, English--United States--History and criticism.
- National songs--United States--History and criticism.
- Ward, Samuel A., 1847-1903. America the beautiful.
- National songs--History and criticism--United States.
- National songs.
- Hymns, English.
- Bates, Katharine Lee.
- Ward, Samuel A., 1848-1903. America the beautiful.
- Ward, Samuel A.
- Local Subjects:
- Bates, Katharine Lee, 1859-1929. America the beautiful.
- Hymns, English--United States--History and criticism.
- National songs--United States--History and criticism.
- Ward, Samuel A., 1847-1903. America the beautiful.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (72 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "America the Beautiful," written in 1893 by Wellesley College English Professor and Poet, Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929), revised and first published in 1895 and revised again in 1904 and 1911, stands among the classic pieces of American National hymnody. The poem reflects not only the natural grandeur of the United States in the late nineteenth century-from sky to earth, and from sea to another-but it depicts the ideal vision of a poet, writing only three decades removed from the American Civil War, who strived extremely hard to communicate to her readers the necessity to preserve the fundam
- Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; 1. The Texts; 2. Introduction to the Hymn; 3. The Texts as Poetry; 4. The Texts as Congregational Hymnody; 5. The Final Text in Hymn Book and Hymnal; 6. Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929); 7. Katharine Lee Bates: Scholar/Writer, Poet, and Hymnodist; 8. The Hymn Tune and Its Composer: ""Materna,"" by Samuel Augustus Ward (1848-1903); 9. Personal Reflection; 10. List of Works Cited and Consulted
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7734-1164-X
- OCLC:
- 797917355
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