TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rogal,Samuel J.
TI  - America the beautiful: a sung prayer in the Christian tradition 
T2  - History of Christian hymnody
SN  - 9780773411647 (electronic bk.)
AV  - ML3561.A6 R64 2012
U1  - 264/.23 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Lewiston, N.Y.
PB  - Edwin Mellen Press
KW  - Bates, Katharine Lee,
KW  - Ward, Samuel A.,
KW  - National songs
KW  - United States
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Hymns, English
KW  - Bates, Katharine Lee, 1859-1929. America the beautiful
KW  - Hymns, English -- United States -- History and criticism
KW  - National songs -- United States -- History and criticism
KW  - Ward, Samuel A., 1847-1903. America the beautiful
KW  - Fine Arts
KW  - Religion
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Rituals & Practice / Worship & Liturgy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION / Institutions & Organizations
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; Includes bibliographical references; 1. The texts -- 2. Introduction to the hymn -- 3. The texts as poetry -- 4. The texts as Congregational hymnody -- 5. The final text in hymn book and hymnal -- 6. Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929) -- 7. Katharine Lee Bates: scholar/writer, poet, and hymnodist -- 8. The hymn tune and its composer: "Materna," by Samuel Augustus Ward (1848-1903) -- 9. Personal reflection -- 10. List of works cited and consulted
N2  - "America the Beautiful," written in 1893 by Wellesley College English Professor and Poet, Katharine Lee Bates (1859-1929), revised and first published in 1895 and revised again in 1904 and 1911, stands among the classic pieces of American National hymnody. The poem reflects not only the natural grandeur of the United States in the late nineteenth century--from sky to earth, and from sea to another--but it depicts the ideal vision of a poet, writing only three decades removed from the American Civil War, who strived extremely hard to communicate to her readers the necessity to preserve the fundam
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