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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... heart so long . ' But Keble's " fount " also retains its sense of a fountain with basins to direct the overflow , hence the " enharmonic " modulation to the overflowing heart . An earlier stanza had imaged the heart as a censer glowing ...
... heart so long . ' But Keble's " fount " also retains its sense of a fountain with basins to direct the overflow , hence the " enharmonic " modulation to the overflowing heart . An earlier stanza had imaged the heart as a censer glowing ...
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... heart to feel itself alone.112 These are motifs expounded but kept in reserve for later develop- ment , as in a symphonic design . For the moment , the poet simply uses them as a source of imaginative nurturing , as in Wordsworth's " I ...
... heart to feel itself alone.112 These are motifs expounded but kept in reserve for later develop- ment , as in a symphonic design . For the moment , the poet simply uses them as a source of imaginative nurturing , as in Wordsworth's " I ...
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... heart not only melts at his absolution but also nourishes those wretches with " fever'd lips and wither'd hearts " mentioned in the first stanza . Hence he inverts the type of the cleft rock ( which nurtured the Israelites in the Wilder ...
... heart not only melts at his absolution but also nourishes those wretches with " fever'd lips and wither'd hearts " mentioned in the first stanza . Hence he inverts the type of the cleft rock ( which nurtured the Israelites in the Wilder ...
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