About the author

John Keble (1792–1866) was an English Anglican priest and poet, and one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement. His National Apostasy, a sermon, is generally regarded as marking the opening of the Oxford Movement; his other representative work, The Christian Year, offers verse meditations on faith following the church calendar, written in plain and devout language and widely read in Victorian England. Public information is limited, so his biographical details should not be overstated; judged by the works available, his writing centers on the life of faith, church tradition, and personal devotion. Its style is solemn and restrained, combining a pastor's earnestness with a poet's discipline, and it influenced nineteenth-century English religious literature and the renewal of thought within the Church of England. Two of his works are held in this collection.

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