Two Poets of the Oxford Movement: John Keble and John Henry NewmanThis 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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... claim- ing that the " volume which has made him [ Keble ] so specially fa- mous , is of that rare kind , which scarcely comes under the idea of literature . " And Keble himself , having to review Conder's Star in the East , prefaced his ...
... claim- ing that the " volume which has made him [ Keble ] so specially fa- mous , is of that rare kind , which scarcely comes under the idea of literature . " And Keble himself , having to review Conder's Star in the East , prefaced his ...
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... claims of the poetry to withstand a more dispassionate examination . While no one would deny that the first task of critics is to ascertain the genre of the material at hand and to regulate their formal and the- matic expectations ...
... claims of the poetry to withstand a more dispassionate examination . While no one would deny that the first task of critics is to ascertain the genre of the material at hand and to regulate their formal and the- matic expectations ...
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... claim that he bears comparison with Tennyson , the received wisdom of humankind has shown us that the excellent will always impoverish the value we would otherwise set upon the good and that odium almost always attaches itself to ...
... claim that he bears comparison with Tennyson , the received wisdom of humankind has shown us that the excellent will always impoverish the value we would otherwise set upon the good and that odium almost always attaches itself to ...
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... claim that The Christian Year reintro- duced the " sacramental " system into English poetry ; what Newman ultimately means is that Keble introduced the " sacramental " sys- tem into his intellectual universe . Almost every instance of ...
... claim that The Christian Year reintro- duced the " sacramental " system into English poetry ; what Newman ultimately means is that Keble introduced the " sacramental " sys- tem into his intellectual universe . Almost every instance of ...
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... claims that " Keble ... made his high - church poetry a vehicle for the emotions of Evangelicalism . " " Even the " primitive " proto- Tractarianism of The Christian Year had something of the bipolar tension that Anglicanism would ...
... claims that " Keble ... made his high - church poetry a vehicle for the emotions of Evangelicalism . " " Even the " primitive " proto- Tractarianism of The Christian Year had something of the bipolar tension that Anglicanism would ...
Contents
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Kebles Christian Year Surveyed I | 35 |
Kebles Christian Year Surveyed II | 110 |
Newmans Contribution to Lyra Apostolica I | 168 |
Newmans Contribution to Lyra Apostolica II | 214 |
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