Two Poets of the Oxford Movement: John Keble and John Henry NewmanFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996 - 296 pages This book examines the poetry of two important figures in the Oxford Movement, a campaign that began by asserting the independence of the English Church from secular power and that went on to Catholicize the Protestant color of Anglicanism in the early nineteenth century. John Keble and John Henry Newman both conceived poetry as the instrument of religious persuasion: Keble through his Christian Year which, although it antedated the movement, was hailed as its Baptist cry; and Newman through his more aggressive contributions to Lyra Apostolica. After a brief introduction in which he discusses the nature of Tractarian poetry - members of the movement were given that nickname - author Rodney Stenning Edgecombe presents detailed readings of the two collections, stressing their value as poetry rather than as theological documents. He argues that both men possessed real lyric gifts which shifts in taste and the theological emphasis of earlier commentaries have tended to obscure. |
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... Wordsworth's irritation with his predecessors . Stephen Prickett has remarked that " to the modern reader , whatever his religious persuasion , the verses [ of The Christian Year ] seem mostly dull and above all insipid . Its ...
... Wordsworth's irritation with his predecessors . Stephen Prickett has remarked that " to the modern reader , whatever his religious persuasion , the verses [ of The Christian Year ] seem mostly dull and above all insipid . Its ...
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... Wordsworth as his poetry clearly shows , " 18 but it is diffi- cult to decide how clearly in view of his subsequent observation that in the matter of diction Keble did not agree with Wordsworth , but looked backwards to the eighteenth ...
... Wordsworth as his poetry clearly shows , " 18 but it is diffi- cult to decide how clearly in view of his subsequent observation that in the matter of diction Keble did not agree with Wordsworth , but looked backwards to the eighteenth ...
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... Wordsworth as its repre- sentative , was searching out the deeper relations between nature and the human soul , he found in poetical composition a vent and relief for feelings stirred by the marvels of glory and of awfulness , and by ...
... Wordsworth as its repre- sentative , was searching out the deeper relations between nature and the human soul , he found in poetical composition a vent and relief for feelings stirred by the marvels of glory and of awfulness , and by ...
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