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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... sense , for it was good sense , after all , that had recommended the suppression of the Irish bishoprics in 1833 and good sense that lay at the heart of the theology propounded by Whately and Arnold . But an additional dark thought ...
... sense , for it was good sense , after all , that had recommended the suppression of the Irish bishoprics in 1833 and good sense that lay at the heart of the theology propounded by Whately and Arnold . But an additional dark thought ...
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... sense bestow An idol substance , bidding us bow low Before those shades of being which are found Stirring or still on man's brief trial ground ; 13 Newman claims that sense data , far from accessing the real , can of- fer only a ...
... sense bestow An idol substance , bidding us bow low Before those shades of being which are found Stirring or still on man's brief trial ground ; 13 Newman claims that sense data , far from accessing the real , can of- fer only a ...
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... sense experience . Even though the Christian concep- tion of history is of a linear forward march toward an ... sense that Lot provides a further type of vigilance . No better index could be found of Newman's confident sense of biblical ...
... sense experience . Even though the Christian concep- tion of history is of a linear forward march toward an ... sense that Lot provides a further type of vigilance . No better index could be found of Newman's confident sense of biblical ...
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