It is a great help towards more, thoughtful worship if we know something about the great company of men and women who wrote the classic hymns of Britain - some
thing about their lives, their spiritual stories and their records as authors.
This book gives us the essential facts together with a critical commentary.). The result is a fresh introduction to a most interesting slice of history, ptures. from Isaac Watts publishing his `songs before unknown' in 1707, , hrough the Wesleys and the Catholic Revival, to the death of the prolific John Ellerton in 1893.