Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . life andwork. Dear John Keble,* as his associatescalled him, was a most ardent churchman. With a rare patience and sympathy for repentant sinners he combinedan implacable condemnation of wrong-doing, which won him respectas well as love. Throughout the religious storm which, emanatingfrom Oxford, shook all England,— which forced John Henry Newmanunwillingly away from his friends and his church, — Keble was astanch support to more vacillating spirits. His sermon upon apos-tasy preached in 1833 stirred up peoples consciences, and may b
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . life andwork. Dear John Keble,* as his associatescalled him, was a most ardent churchman. With a rare patience and sympathy for repentant sinners he combinedan implacable condemnation of wrong-doing, which won him respectas well as love. Throughout the religious storm which, emanatingfrom Oxford, shook all England,— which forced John Henry Newmanunwillingly away from his friends and his church, — Keble was astanch support to more vacillating spirits. His sermon upon apos-tasy preached in 1833 stirred up peoples consciences, and may besaid to have initiated the Tractarian movement. He himself wroteseveral of the more important ^Tracts for the Times. His entire life was passed in intimate connection with the was born at Fairford, Gloucestershire, in 1792, but was very youngwhen his father became vicar of The elder Keblewas a sweet-natured man and a fine classical student, who tookcharge himself of his sons early education; and so successfully thatXV—533. John Keble 8514 JOHN KEBLE at fifteen John Keble was admitted to Corpus Christi College, that time the University became very dear to him; and laterhe exercised an important influence over a long succession of under-graduates. He was appointed a Fellow of Oriel College in 1811, andwas a tutor in Oxford for several years. Then he returned to hiscountry home, and led a serene yet earnest life with his family whileserving as his fathers curate. The great success of *? The ChristianYear * resulted in his appointment as professor of poetry at Oxford in1833,—a congenial position, which he filled most capably. Soon afterhis fathers death in 1835, he married and became vicar of Hursleynear Winchester, where he lived until his death in 1866. He was not a prolific writer, and his occasional poems werecarefully and frequently remodeled. In 1846 he published a secondvolume, called * L^ra Innocentium ^ ; but although gracef
Size: 1416px × 1765px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookpublisherny, bookyear1896
