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Trinity of Discord - The Hymnal and Poetic Innovations of Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, and William Cowper (Hardcover, New edition)
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Trinity of Discord - The Hymnal and Poetic Innovations of Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, and William Cowper (Hardcover, New edition)
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The three writers examined in Richard Arnold’s Trinity of
Discord, Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, and William Cowper, are known
as famous poets, but are also the greatest and most popularly
compiled and used hymn-writers of all time. While masters of their
kind, they were so remarkably different, considering they were
working in the same (and quite new) genre. Moreover, when
considered in their poetic-historical contexts, it is noteworthy
that Watts can be seen as an archetypal Neoclassicist (not unlike
Pope and Johnson), Wesley as a transitional pre-Romantic (not
unlike Gray and Collins), and Cowper a thoroughgoing Romantic (not
unlike Wordsworth and Coleridge, but with a much sharper
psychological edge). Most noteworthy is that Watts, Wesley, and
Cowper come before their later counterparts and their respective
movements: their importance to mainstream or canonical literary
history cannot be overestimated. In terms of the hymn’s
development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these three
stand as beacons in the genre, if not individual species of a
multiform genre itself. In their time and context, these three
were, while paradoxically out of tune with the status quo, and
radically different from each other, forging a new and everlasting
genre, one born out of a veritable trinity of discord.
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