"Everything about my education came to focus in my attempt to save the Book of Common Prayer and the King James Bible. These texts, with hymnody, were what I most obviously shared with my father, and now the generations were being separated from each other just where they might expect continuity. To maintain something of that continuity I found myself in correspondence with the intelligence and imagination of England. The Prayer Book, the KJV and classic hymnody for me brought together poetry, music, poetry set to music, the poetics of place, the Church in a place, and articulate speech."
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David Martin, The Education of David Martin: The Making of An Unlikely Sociologist (2013), p. 161
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