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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... star , present all along ( though unperceived ) . The star itself is a compound symbol . Keble's uppercase pronouns throughout the poem point to its function as a figure of Christ , a function pointed to by the oblique allusion to Num ...
... star , present all along ( though unperceived ) . The star itself is a compound symbol . Keble's uppercase pronouns throughout the poem point to its function as a figure of Christ , a function pointed to by the oblique allusion to Num ...
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... stars in Heaven- What are the saints on earth ? Like trees they stand whom GOD has given , Our Eden's happy birth . " 121 The metaphoric equation of stars and saints likewise seem to have struck the compilers as being too primitive and ...
... stars in Heaven- What are the saints on earth ? Like trees they stand whom GOD has given , Our Eden's happy birth . " 121 The metaphoric equation of stars and saints likewise seem to have struck the compilers as being too primitive and ...
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... stars and the softness of flowers , from which it is later distinguished : O tender gem , and full of heaven ! Not in the twilight stars on high , Not in moist flowers at even See we our God so nigh . A gem " full of Heaven " obviously ...
... stars and the softness of flowers , from which it is later distinguished : O tender gem , and full of heaven ! Not in the twilight stars on high , Not in moist flowers at even See we our God so nigh . A gem " full of Heaven " obviously ...
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