Fred Pratt Green

2 September 1903—22 October 2000

Featured Hymns:

For the fruits of his creation
When in our music God is glorified

Collections of Hymns & Poems:

Poems in Pamphlet: This Unlikely Earth (1952)
The Skating Parson (1963)
26 Hymns (1971)
The Old Couple (1976)
The Hymns and Ballads of Fred Pratt Green (1982)
Later Hymns and Ballads and Fifty Poems (1989)
The Last Lap (1991)
Serving God and God’s Creatures (2001)
Partners in Creation (2003)

see also:

Methodist School Hymn Book (1950)
Hymns and Songs (1969)
Seven New Hymns of Hope (1971)
Cantate Domino (1973)
Partners in Praise (1979)
The Galliard Book of Carols (1980)
Hymns and Psalms (1983)

Archives & Manuscripts:

Fred Pratt Green Papers (MSS 166), Pitts Library, Candler School of Theology, Emory University:
http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/g29d6

Pratt Green Collection, Durham University Archives:
https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb33-pra

Related Resources:

Lee Hastings Bristol Jr., “F. Pratt Green: Creative Methodist contemporary,” The Hymn, vol. 22, no. 1 (Jan. 1971), pp. 5–7: HathiTrust

Fred Pratt Green, “Hymn writing today,” HSGBI Bulletin, vol. 7, no. 6 (Oct. 1971), pp. 122–124: Website

Erik Routley, “Some recent hymn books,” Bulletin, Methodist Church Music Society (April 1972).

Erik Routley, “The background of the English renaissance in hymnody,” The Hymn, vol. 28, no. 2 (April 1977), pp. 64–66: HathiTrust

Fred Pratt Green, “Hymn writing in retirement,” The Hymn, vol. 30, no. 3 (July 1979), pp. 154–158: HathiTrust

E. Margaret Clarkson, Carl P. Daw Jr., and Fred Pratt Green, “Approaches to hymn writing,” The Hymn, vol. 35, no. 2 (April 1984), pp. 78–: HathiTrust

Fred Pratt Green, Brian Wren, and Fred Kaan, with Robin A. Leaver, “New hymnody: Some problems and prospects,” Duty and Delight: Routley Remembered (Carol Stream, IL: 1985), pp. 217–228.

Mark F. Borum, The Hymns of Fred Pratt Green: An Analysis and Perspective, dissertation (Ft. Worth, TX: Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1988).

“Frederick Pratt Green,” Companion to Hymns and Psalms (Peterborough: Methodist Publishing, 1988), p. 578.

Bernard Braley, “Fred Pratt Green,” Hymnwriters 3 (London: Stainer & Bell, 1991), pp. 123–71.

Vernon Wicker, “Fred Pratt Green: The poet and his hymns,” The Hymn, vol. 46, no. 4 (October 1995), pp. 12–19: HathiTrust

Paul Westermeyer, “Fred Pratt Green,” With Tongues of Fire: Profiles in 20th-Century Hymn Writing (St. Louis: Concordia, 1995), pp. 75–90.

Maureen Harris, The Drama, Poetry, and Hymns of Fred Pratt Green: A Bibliographic and Critical Study in Two Volumes, dissertation (University of Durham, 1996): Online

Bernard Braley, “The Rev. Frederick Pratt Green: Prolific hymn writer who put Christianity’s social concerns to verse,” The Guardian (London: 31 October 2000), p. 20: PDF

[Bernard S. Massey,] “Fred Pratt Green, 1903–2000,” HSGBI Bulletin, vol. 16, no. 5 (January 2001), pp. 129–130.

George H. Shorney, “The trumpet is silenced but the song goes on: A tribute to Fred Pratt Green, FHS,” The Hymn, vol. 52, no. 3 (July 2001), pp. 28–30: HathiTrust

Bernard Braley, ed., Serving God and God’s Creatures: A Memorial Volume to Celebrate the Life of Frederick Pratt Green (London: Stainer & Bell, 2001).

Scott R. Schilbe, “Fred Pratt Green,” Lutheran Service Book Companion to the Hymns, vol. 2 (St. Louis: Concordia, 2019), p. 361.

Maureen Harris, “Fred Pratt Green,” Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology:
http://www.hymnology.co.uk/f/fred-pratt-green

The Pratt Green Trust: https://prattgreentrust.org.uk