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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... final distich should be presented as a hymn in itself — unless , of course , his knowledge of this and other texts was as superficial as I suspect it was . The truth of the matter is that the Tractarians had no inten- tion of writing ...
... final distich should be presented as a hymn in itself — unless , of course , his knowledge of this and other texts was as superficial as I suspect it was . The truth of the matter is that the Tractarians had no inten- tion of writing ...
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... final phase of The Christian Year . This celebrates the weekly and monthly events that flesh out the annual contour , and so recalls the two lyrics ( " Morning " and " Evening " ) with which Keble prefaced his design . Like " All Saints ...
... final phase of The Christian Year . This celebrates the weekly and monthly events that flesh out the annual contour , and so recalls the two lyrics ( " Morning " and " Evening " ) with which Keble prefaced his design . Like " All Saints ...
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... final form of our voca- tions will accordingly differ from our first ideas of service . Using St. Gregory in this way , as a sort of hagiological " type " for his own summons to lead a movement , Newman is able to reconcile himself to ...
... final form of our voca- tions will accordingly differ from our first ideas of service . Using St. Gregory in this way , as a sort of hagiological " type " for his own summons to lead a movement , Newman is able to reconcile himself to ...
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