The Christian Year
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers with a Christian background who wish to read devotionally by season
- Readers studying nineteenth-century English religious poetry and Keble's work
- Those who enjoy short poems and are willing to read one or two a day
- Readers who need public-domain English poetry material as a supplement for courses or reading groups
Not a good fit for
- Readers uninterested in religious themes and devotional content
- Readers expecting continuous narrative or plot development
- Readers unfamiliar with the church calendar and unwilling to look up background material
Reading tips
- Read according to the seasons of the church calendar; there is no need to read from beginning to end in one go.
- Read one or two poems a day, and after reading write one sentence of reflection or copy a line that moves you.
- When encountering saint's days and allusions, look up brief background first, then reread the lines for smoother understanding.
- Read alongside other religious poetry collections to appreciate the language style of nineteenth-century religious verse.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
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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.
