The Victorian Hymn: An Inaugural Lecture

abide Arthur Hutchings Blake's bleak mid-winter bless captives Carl Sandburg Chances of Rhyme Change and decay choosing this subject Christ Christian dogma Christina Rossetti Christopher Ricks church Coleridge couplet D. H. Lawrence darkness deepens dear Lord death describes dismissed doctrine Durham Earth stood hard Earth's joys grow Evangelical example expression Ezekiel fear no foe fourth verse Galilee George Eliot Hardy Hardy's heaven Hiding in Thee Holy I. A. Richards imagery J. B. Dykes Jerusalem Jesus John Keble joys grow dim Keats and Embarrassment kind Landow language lines living creatures London Lynch Lyte Lyte's Max Weber means metrical Monsell poem poet Professor of English prophet psalm Raymond Williams reason for choosing religious Robert Gittings Rock of Ages romantic Ruskin salvation Samuel Sandburg points scriptural second verse sentiment soul Thomas Hardy tunes University of Durham verb verse form Victorian hymn writers Victorian hymnody Wesley William wonder words Wordsworth