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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... O'er the moist and reedy grass . Long ere winter blasts are fled , See her tipp'd with vernal red , And her kindly flower display'd Ere her leaf can cast a shade . The debt to Gray is obvious : we are reminded of the Ecce which starts ...
... O'er the moist and reedy grass . Long ere winter blasts are fled , See her tipp'd with vernal red , And her kindly flower display'd Ere her leaf can cast a shade . The debt to Gray is obvious : we are reminded of the Ecce which starts ...
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... o'er the billowy corn , and heave / The tresses of the palm . " 141 " Fourth Sunday in Lent " is one of those paradoxical poems ( like the palinode ) that defies its own precepts in the process of articulat- ing them . Keble takes the ...
... o'er the billowy corn , and heave / The tresses of the palm . " 141 " Fourth Sunday in Lent " is one of those paradoxical poems ( like the palinode ) that defies its own precepts in the process of articulat- ing them . Keble takes the ...
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... o'er their dewy bosoms lean / To ' adore the Father of all gentle lights ? " Having thus subsumed the conscious- ness of sin into the greater consciousness of God , Keble refocuses the poem in the breast of the penitent and offers a ...
... o'er their dewy bosoms lean / To ' adore the Father of all gentle lights ? " Having thus subsumed the conscious- ness of sin into the greater consciousness of God , Keble refocuses the poem in the breast of the penitent and offers a ...
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments9 | 9 |
Houghton Esther Rhoads The British Critic and the Oxford Movement Studies | 16 |
I | 35 |
Copyright | |
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