More than any other single figure associated with the religious movements of nineteenth-century England, John Keble was regarded by his contemporaries as something close to a saint. John Henry Newman in the Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1864) attests to...

Called by John Henry Newman the "true and primary author" of the Oxford or Tractarian Movement, John Keble was also the author of the single most popular volume of verse in the nineteenth century, The Christian Year (1827). Though little known today,...

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John Keble (April 25, 1792 – March 29, 1866) was an English churchman, one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement, and gave his name to Keble College, Oxford. He was born in Fairford, Gloucestershire where his father, the Rev. John Keble, was Vicar...

INTRODUCTION The Oxford Movement has traditionally been dated in accordance with John Henry Newman's autobiography, Apologia Pro Vita Sua. Newman stated that the movement began with a sermon delivered before the Assize judges at the University of Oxford, on 14 July 1833. That...

Rick Mather Architects used a deferential strategy in the design of a new four-storey residential building for Keble College in Oxford, England. This strategy enabled the building's designers to create a spatial effect that minimizes the reductivist topology of the structure. This innovative manipulation...

In the following essay, Shairp provides a summary of Keble's participation in the Oxford Movement and a critical analysis of The Christian Year.

In the following essay, Tennyson evaluates the structure and poetic style of The Christian Year, a work he regards as a “practical application of Tractarian poetics.”

In the following essay, Goodwin interprets Keble's aesthetic theory in relation to the Romantic Tradition, arguing that Keble's poetry is ignored by that tradition. Goodwin goes on to enumerate areas of divergence in the aesthetics of Keble and of his Tractarian contemporary John Henry Newman.