The hymn is one of the great highlights of Welsh literature. In this volume, Professor E. Wyn James, an acknowledged expert on Welsh hymnology, draws together the late Professor H. A. Hodges's writings on William Williams Pantycelyn, Ann Griffiths and the Welsh hymn, including his acclaimed English translations of Ann Griffiths's hymns and letters and his unpublished notes on them.

• INTRODUCTION
• VITA EQUINA: THE LIFE OF H. A. HODGES
• H. A. HODGES (1905–1976): A BIBLIOGRAPHY
• PART ONE: Williams Pantycelyn and the Welsh Hymn
• FLAME IN THE MOUNTAINS: Aspects of Welsh Free Church Hymnody
• WILLIAMS PANTYCELYN: Father of the Modern Welsh Hymn
• OVER THE DISTANT HILLS
• PART TWO: Ann Griffiths
• HOMAGE TO ANN GRIFFITHS: AN INTRODUCTION
• A NOTE OF INTRODUCTION TO ‘ANN GRIFFITHS: A LITERARY SURVEY’
• ANN GRIFFITHS: A LITERARY SURVEY
• The Hymns of Ann Griffiths
• The Letters of Ann Griffiths
• NOTES ON THE HYMNS OF ANN GRIFFITHS
• NOTES ON THE LETTERS OF ANN GRIFFITHS
• SCRIPTURAL REFERENCES AND ALLUSIONS IN THE HYMNS AND LETTERS OF ANN GRIFFITHS