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Dudley-Smith is a wonderfully congenial host for this all-too-brief survey of the intricacies of hymn-writing. It is at times wry and humorous, at others earnest and thoughtful, as one would expect and hope. It is a privilege to have the writer of 450 hymns lead the reader gently through his process, covering such issues as the links and differences between poetry and hymnody, the need to 'gruel' at one's text, the challenges of rhyme and scansion.He draws on perhaps the usual suspects like

Title : A Functional Art: Reflections of a Hymn Writer
Author : Timothy Dudley-Smith
Language : en
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Uploaded : Apr 06, 2021

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