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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... thought . Thus we move from physical features ( " earth or sky ... stream or grove " ) to their metaphysical translation ( " Time's full river as it flows " ; " flowers of life " ) , while Keble adjusts the light to foreground the ...
... thought . Thus we move from physical features ( " earth or sky ... stream or grove " ) to their metaphysical translation ( " Time's full river as it flows " ; " flowers of life " ) , while Keble adjusts the light to foreground the ...
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... thought to thought . " 50 We ought to recall that , distinguished classicist though he was , Keble thought that Sir Walter Scott's ignorance of Greek literature was actually a providential blessing , which " tended to keep his style ...
... thought to thought . " 50 We ought to recall that , distinguished classicist though he was , Keble thought that Sir Walter Scott's ignorance of Greek literature was actually a providential blessing , which " tended to keep his style ...
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... thought of the time is accordingly to be certain of the truth that that thought , according to the Tractarians , is incapable of accepting . Because the Anglican establishment seemed hand in glove with the liberal forces that had ...
... thought of the time is accordingly to be certain of the truth that that thought , according to the Tractarians , is incapable of accepting . Because the Anglican establishment seemed hand in glove with the liberal forces that had ...
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