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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Preface and Acknowledgments9 | 9 |
Houghton Esther Rhoads The British Critic and the Oxford Movement Studies | 16 |
I | 35 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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Ancient and Modern angels Anglican Apologia apostolic Battiscombe Catholic Christ Christian Church claims Coleridge Collins and Goldsmith diction divine doctrine earth edited epigraph Ernest de Selincourt Evangelical eyes Faber faith flowers Frederick Faber Froude Georgina Battiscombe God's Gospel Gray's H. W. Garrod Harmondsworth heart Heaven Herbert Holy human Hymns Ancient Ibid idea imaginative John Henry Newman John Keble Keats Keble seems Keble's Keble's poem landscape light Little Dorrit Longman Lonsdale Lord Lyra Apostolica Lyra Innocentium lyric mind Modern Revised morning night note 12 note 9 o'er Old Testament Oxford Movement Oxford University Press Penguin Poems of Gray poet Poetical poetry prayer prophet recalls Richard Wilbur Roman saints Saviour sense Septuagesima Sunday sonnet sort soul spirit stanza Sunday after Trinity sweet takes Tennyson thee Thine thou thought tion Tractarian truth turn typological verse vision whereas William Shakespeare words Wordsworth