Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1914 — English Poetry as Chants. [ARTICLE]

English Poetry as Chants.

Masterpieces of English literature are now being set to chant music by the West London Ethical society. Swinburne's "The Holy Spirit of Man." Walt Whitman’s “Whoever You Are." and Wordsworth’s “The Soul That Rises Within Us" are among the poems lately thus sung, partly as unaccompanied solo, partly as harmdnized chant The president of the society entertains the rather bold hope of eventually obtaining the introduction into English church service of readings from the masters of English literature.