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"[Watson] aims to bring to bear on the hymn a full array of literary-critical techniques, and so bring its complexities to light. His reasons are understandable, even admirable: a pioneering sense that 'the texts of hymns have received little serious critical study from students of English literature,' and an enthusiast's hope that, by prising hymns from the grasp of the clergy and musicians and clergy-musicians, he can find for them a new, a more varied audience."Watson, J. R. is the author of 'English Hymn A Critical and Historical Study' with ISBN 9780198270027 and ISBN 019827002X.
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