John Keble
John Keble , born the April 25th 1792 with Fairford (Gloucestershire, Great Britain) and dead the March 29th 1866, is an ecclesiastic English, poet and theologist, major figure of the Mouvement of Oxford.
A poet Anglican
John Keble was the son of the Reverend John Keble, vicar of Coln St Aldwyn' S. He studied with Corpus Christi College (Oxford), and, after brilliant studies, he taught with Oriel College, and was during several years tutor and inspector of the University of Oxford. He there was ordered priest Anglican, and assisted initially his father in his cure, before obtaining that of East Leach.
Meanwhile, he wrote The Christian Year , collection of poems published anonymously in 1827, which accepted an extremely favorable reception. The identity of its author was quickly known, and, in 1831, John Keble accepted the pulpit of poetry of the University of Oxford, which it preserved until 1841. According to Michael Wheeler, The Christian Year is the “versified work most popular of the 19th century”. In its test Tractarian Aesthetics and the Romantic Tradition , Gregory Goodwin even affirms that The Christian Year is “the greatest contribution of John Keble to the Movement of Oxford and the English literature”. In support of its thesis, Goodwin shows that 95 editions of this work of piety were printed the alive one of Keble, and that one year after its death, this number amounted to 109. In 1873, when the copyright was raised, more: 375000 copies had been sold by it in Great Britain, and 158 editions published. But in spite of this broad diffusion at the readers of the era victorienne, the popularity of the work of Keble declined quickly at the 20th century.
According to John Cousins, in Shorts Biographical Dictionary English Literature have off (1910):
" The literary dimension of Keble is mainly related to The Christian Year , of which the goal was, according to his author, to link the thoughts and the feelings of the reader to those of the Prayer Book . The poems, although unequal, are in general characterized by a true poetic direction, refined, and of a language of a great quality. The book became traditional religious literature, although its readers are often far away from the religious thought of its author, and of the current of thought to which it belonged. Keble was of one of the holiest and generous men whom the Church Anglican knew. Although shy person and discrete, it exerted an immense influence on his génération."
John Keble and the Movement of Oxford
In 1833, its famous sermon on the “national apostasy” ( National apostasy ), gave the kickoff of the Movement of Oxford. At the sides of its pars, in particular John Henry Newman and Edward Bouverie Pusey, it was an eminent figure of the Movement, but did not follow Newman when this one converts with the Catholicisme.
In 1835, it settled with its family with Hursley (Hampshire), where it remained until the end of its life. It exerted there a major influence on a neighbor, the author Charlotte Mary Yonge.
In 1846, it published a second collection of poems, Lyra Innocentium . Its other works are a Life off Wilson, Bishop off Sodor and Man , and an edition of the Works off Hooker . Moreover, after its death the Letters off Negro spirituals Counsel , and 12 volumes of sermons appeared.
Two biographies of Keble were written, by J.D. Coleridge in 1869, and by W. Lock in 1895. In 1963, Georgina Battiscombe wrote a biography entitled John Keble: study in limitations has.
Keble College
Keble College, a college of the University of Oxford, was named in the honor of John Keble.