George MacDonald

England’s Antiphon

First published
1868 (and 1874)
Length
81,000 words, about 6 hours' reading

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An anthology and history of English religious poetry, from the thirteenth century to his own day.

Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. Chapter I. Sacred Lyrics of the Thirteenth Century
  4. Chapter II. The Miracle Plays and Other Poems of the Fourteenth Century
      1. Good Counsel of Chaucer
  5. Chapter III. The Fifteenth Century
      1. Thank God for All
  6. Chapter IV. Introduction to the Elizabethan Era
      1. Gascoigne's Good Morrow
      2. That Each Thing is Hurt of Itself
  7. Chapter V. Spenser and his Friends
      1. An Hymn of Heavenly Love
      2. A Long Farewell to Glittering Trifles
      3. Psalm XCVI
      4. Psalm XLIV
      5. Psalm LXV
      6. Psalm XCIII
      7. Psalm CXXXIX
  8. Chapter VI. Lord Bacon and his Coevals
      1. New Prince, New Pomp
      2. Content and Rich
      3. The Character of a Happy Life
  9. Chapter VII. Dr. Donne
      1. A Hymn to God the Father
      2. A Hymn to Christ
      3. Resurrection
  10. Chapter VIII. Bishop Hall and George Sandys
      1. Anthem for the Cathedral of Exeter
      2. For Christmas-Day
      3. Psalm XCII
      4. Psalm CXXIII
  11. Chapter IX. A Few of the Elizabethan Dramatists
      1. The Sinner's Sacrifice
        1. 1.—to the Holy Trinity
      2. 2.—an Hymn to God the Father
      3. 3.—an Hymn on the Nativity of My Saviour
      4. Upon an Honest Man's Fortune
      5. A Song of Labour
  12. Chapter X. Sir John Beaumont and Drummond of Hawthornden
      1. Of the Epiphany
      2. In Desolation
      3. Change Should Breed Change
  13. Chapter XI. The Brothers Fletcher
      1. Psalm CXXX
  14. Chapter XII. Wither, Herrick, and Quarles
      1. When We Cannot Sleep
      2. A Rocking Hymn
      3. A Grace for a Child
      4. His Litany to the Holy Spirit
      5. The White Island, or Place of the Blest
      6. To Death
      7. Eternity
      8. The Goodness of his God
      9. To God
      10. Divine Epigrams
      11. Phosphor, Bring the Day
  15. Chapter XIII. George Herbert
      1. The Elixir
      2. The Quip
      3. The Collar
      4. Aaron
      5. The Pulley
      6. The Thanksgiving
      7. The Reprisal
  16. Chapter XIV. John Milton
      1. On Time
      2. At a Solemn Music
      3. On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
      4. The Hymn
  17. Chapter XV. Edmund Waller, Thomas Brown, and Jeremy Taylor
      1. On the Foregoing Divine Poems
      2. The Second Hymn for Advent; Or, Christ's Coming to Jerusalem in Triumph
      3. Hymn for Christmas-Day; Being a Dialogue between Three Shepherds
      4. A Hymn for Christmas-Day
      5. The Prayer
      6. A Prayer for Charity
  18. Chapter XVI. Henry More and Richard Baxter
      1. Resolution
      2. Devotion
      3. The Philosopher's Devotion
      4. Charity and Humility
      5. The Resolution
      6. The Return
  19. Chapter XVII. Crashaw and Marvell
      1. Easter Day
      2. A Hymn of the Nativity Sung by the Shepherds
      3. And They Laid Him in a Manger
      4. On a Drop of Dew
      5. The Coronet
  20. Chapter XVIII. A Mount of Vision—henry Vaughan
      1. Cock-Crowing
      2. The Retreat
        1. Childhood
      3. The Night
      4. The Dawning
      5. Christ's Nativity
      6. Easter Hymn
      7. First Sunday After Christmas
      8. The Aspiration
      9. The Return
      10. A General Song of Praise to Almighty God
      11. For Communion with God
  21. Chapter XIX. The Plain
      1. Happy Frailty
      2. Hymn for Evening
      3. The Universal Prayer
      4. Wednesday
      5. A Penitential Soliloquy
      6. The Soul's Tendency Towards its True Centre
      7. The Answer to the Desponding Soul
      8. Divine Epigrams
  22. Chapter XX. The Roots of the Hills
      1. Hymn
      2. Wrestling Jacob
  23. Chapter XXI. The New Vision
      1. Daybreak
      2. On Another's Sorrow
      3. Ninth Evening Voluntary
        1. I
        2. II
        3. III
        4. IV
      4. Hymn
      5. On an Infant
      6. "She Loved Much."
  24. Chapter XXII. The Fervour of the Implicit. Insight of the Heart
      1. Eighteenth Sunday After Trinity
      2. St. Matthew
      3. The Eternity of God
      4. Desolation
      5. Reality
      6. Sonnet
      7. Bereavement
      8. Comfort
      9. A Farewell
  25. Chapter XXIII. The Questioning Fervour
      1. The Good Shepherd with the Kid
      2. LIV
      3. XXXII

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