Here We Stand
An introduction to a new publication about poetry, ancient and modern
In 1861, a man named Henry Williams Baker (1821–1877) organized a collection of hymns for use in the Church of England. Appearing in the great era of formalizing religious music, the book was a late fruit of both the Protestantizing of Methodism (which gave English believers a new sense of hymn composit…
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