John Keble

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This is a recommended study of John Keble (25 April 1792 – 29 March 1866) an English churchman and poet, and one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Movement). Keble College, Oxford (below, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keble_College,_Oxford and http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk/) was named after him. He was the author of The Christian Year (1827, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Christian_Year and the full text at http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4272/4272-0.txt), a book of devotional poetry which was highly influential and popular in Victorian England.

Keble College Chapel - Oct 2006.jpg

395 pages in Knopf

ASIN: B0007DM34G

John Keble

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