Rev. John Keble

The son of a Gloucestershire clergyman, John Keble studied at Corpus Christi College Oxford (B.A. in 1811 from Oriel College, Fellow 1812-35, M.A. 1813). At Oxford Keble won the prizes for English and Latin essays; he was a tutor (1818-23) and professor of poetry (1831-41). His cycle of devotional poems, The Christian Year (1827) went through many nineteenth-century editions; his 1833 sermon on national apostacy initiated the Oxford Movement. Upon the death of his father he became Vicar of Hursley, Hampshire (1835-1866).

TEXT RECORDS:

1825Sacred Poetry.
1827Second Sunday after Easter.
1827Third Sunday after Epiphany.
1827Tuesday before Easter.

PUBLICATIONS:

On translation from dead languages, a prize essay. 1812.
The Christian year. 1827.
National apostacy considered in a sermon. 1833.
Ode for the Encaenia at Oxford. 1834.
Tracts for the times. 1834, 1841.
Lyra apostolica [46 contributions]. 1836.
Primitive tradition recognized in Holy Scripture: a sermon. 1836.
Richard Hooker, Works [ed. Keble]. 3 vols, 1836.
The Psalter of Psalms of David in English verse. 1839.
The case of Catholic subscription to the XXXIX articles. 1841.
Praelectiones poeticae. 1844.
Lyra innocentium: thoughts in verse on Christian children. 1846.
Sermons, academical and occasional. 1848.
Church matters in 1850. 1850.
On Eucharistical adoration. 1857.
Sermons, occasional and parochial. 1868.
Miscellaneous poems, ed. G. Moberley. 1869.
The Christian year and other poems, ed. J. C. Sharp. 1914.
Correspondence of John Henry Newman with John Keble and others. 1917.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Anglican

Corpus Christi College Oxford
Oriel College Oxford
Bachelor of Arts
Master of Arts
College Fellow

clergyman
tutor
professor
poet

British Critic

Card. John Henry Newman
Rev. George Francis Ottey

REFERENCE:

DNB; NCBEL; CBEL (3rd ed); DLB.

Quarterly Review 38 (July 1828) 48; John Wilson, Blackwoods Magazine 27 (June 1830) 837; John Holland, in Psalmists of Britain (1843); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); Illustrated London News 48 (1866) 365-66 [portrait]; J. C. Shairp, An Essay on the Author of The Christian Year (1866); obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 220 (May 1866) 747-49; J. F. Moor, The Birthplace of the Author of The Christian Year (1867); John Taylor Coleridge, A Memoir of the Rev. John Keble (1869); Sir J. T. Moor, Memoir of John Keble (1870); Illustrated Review 5 (1873) 371-81 [portrait]; Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature 3rd ed. (1876); R. H. Haweis, memoir in Poets in the Pulpit (1880) 145-93; The English Poets, ed. Thomas Humphry Ward (1880); Frederic Boase, Modern English Biography (1892-1921); Walter Lock, John Keble: a Biography (1893); Moulton, Library of Literary Criticism (1901-05); William E. Daniels, Keble (1948); W. J. A. M. Beek, Keble's Literary and Religious Contributions to the Oxford Movement (1959); Brian W. Martin, Keble, Priest, Professor, and Poet (1976); John Griffin, "John Keble and the Quarterly Review" Review of English Studies 28 (1978) 454-58; J. R. Griffin, John Keble, Saint of Anglicanism (1987); Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database (1995).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for Rev. John Keble:

1.	1828  Edward Smedley to H. Hawkins, 17 November 1828; Poems of the late Rev. Edward Smedley (1837) 319.
2.	1833  Walter Farquhar Hook to W. P. Wood, 1 June 1833; Life and Letters, ed. Stephens; Moulton, Library of Literary Criticism (1901-05) 6:457.
3.	1835  Chandos Leigh, in Fifth Epistle to a Friend in Town (1835); Poems (1839) 65.
4.	1843  John Holland, in Psalmists of Britain. Records of upwards of One Hundred and Fifty Authors, who have rendered the Whole or Parts of The Book of Psalms, into English Verse (1843) 2:373-76.
5.	1844  William Wordsworth, 5 March 1844; Memoir by Lady Richardson; Prose, ed. Grosart (1876) 3:441.
6.	1847  Sara Coleridge to Mrs. Richard Townsend, September 1847; Memoir and Letters (1874) 320.
7.	1862  Thomas Arnold, in A Manual of English Literature (1862; 1885) 440.
8.	1864  John Henry Newman, in Apologia pro Vita Sua (1864) 77.
9.	1868  George Macdonald, in England's Antiphon (1868; 1890) 313.
10.	1880  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, in The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions, ed. Thomas Humphry Ward (1880) 4:503-08.
11.	1881  James Anthony Froude, "The Oxford Counter-Reformation" (1881); Moulton, Library of Literary Criticism (1901-05) 6:459.
12.	1882  Epes Sargent, in Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry (1882) 436.
13.	1896  George Saintsbury, in History of Nineteenth-Century Poetry (1896) 363.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for Rev. John Keble:

1.	1848  Rufus Griswold, in Sacred Poets (1848; 1866) 497.
2.	1866  Anonymous, Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine 220 (May 1866) 747-49.
3.	1876  Robert Carruthers, in Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature, 3rd ed. (1876; 1879) 5:380-82.
4.	1897  Frederic Boase, Modern English Biography (1892-1921) 2:169-70.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)

1.	1820  Robert Southey:   John Keble, 1820; New Letters of Robert Southey, ed. Curry (1965) 2:214.
2.	1825  Josiah Conder:   John Keble, in Review of Conder, Star of the East; Quarterly Review 32 (June 1825) 211-17.