Fiddled out of Reason examines Addison's poetic oeuvre in context of the nondevotional hymn, an underexplored genre of eighteenth-century verse. It concentrates on poems such as Addison's Cecilian odes, Rosamond, and five hymnic works for The Spectator, as well as Dryden's "Song for St Cecilia's Day" and "Alexander's Feast" and Pope's "Messiah."
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. 1687-1699: The Hymnic Absconds from the Chapel
1. "Let all Cecilia's Praise proclaim": The Hymnic and the St. Cecilia's Day Odes
2. The Hymnic and The Cecilian Odes of Dryden and Addison
II. 1700-1712: The Hymnic Onstage and in The Spectator
3. Rosamond and The Road to the Spectator Hymns
4. The Spectator Turns to the Hymnic
5. The Spectator and the Progress of the Hymnic
III. July-October 1712: Addison's Hymnic Sequence
6. The Poems of the Spectator Sequence
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
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