Books with author John Keble

This anthology of poetry by John Keble celebrates Christian festivals, events and Holy Days throughout the entire year. There is a poem for every Sunday of the year, with poems individually devoted to Easter, All Saints Day, Christmas, Advent, the Epiphany, Lent, Trinity and other occasions and celebrations within the Christian calendar. There are also poems written specifically for the major venerated saints, and special poems devoted to each day's morning and evening, together with verses covering the subject of marriages, births and ordinations of priests. Well written, eloquent and brimming with faith, the poems of John Keble have become much-read in homes, church congregations and seminaries throughout Christendom. Readable and memorable to this day, they make a fine addition to any Christian bookshelf. Whether you are a lay person wishing to gain a fresh perspective on the yearly events of Christianity, or a churchman or priest who wishes to imbue his sermons with Keble's perceptive iterations of faith, The Christian Year is a fine book to have. First published in 1827, this edition is derived from a revised text of The Christian Year which first appeared in 1887, and includes an introduction to the life and goals John Keble held when he authored the original text.

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Keble’s prayer book contains over 100 pieces of poetry to be used for prayer, devotions, or meditation on Sundays and holidays throughout the Christian year. It was Keble’s desire that his readers would use his verses to unify their own spiritual thoughts and feelings. The Christian Year opens with morning and evening prayers, inspired by passages from Luke and Lamentations. The majority of Keble’s poems correspond with a particular Sunday in the Christian year, but the book also contains a number of poems for Christian holidays and important events, such as matrimony, communion, and baptism. Keble’s surpassing talent as a poet is evident on every page. The beauty of his words and the sincerity of his message are inspiring to Christians and non-Christians alike. Emmalon Davis CCEL Staff WriterThis edition features an artistic cover, a new promotional introduction, an index of scripture references, and links for scripture references to the appropriate passages.

The Christian Year is a series of poems for all the Sundays and some other feasts of the liturgical year of the Church of England written by John Keble in 1827. The book is the source for several hymns.It was first published in 1827, and quickly became extremely popular. Though at first anonymous, its authorship soon became known, with the result that Keble was in 1831 appointed Oxford Professor of Poetry, a post that he held until 1841.In his book Heaven, Hell, and the Victorians, Victorian scholar Michael Wheeler calls The Christian Year simply "the most popular volume of verse in the nineteenth century". In his essay on "Tractarian Aesthetics and the Romantic Tradition," Gregory Goodwin claims that The Christian Year is "Keble's greatest contribution to the Oxford Movement and to English literature." As evidence of that, Goodwin cites E. B. Pusey's report that ninety-five editions of this devotional text were printed during Keble's lifetime, and "at the end of the year following his death, the number had arisen to a hundred-and-nine." By the time the copyright expired in 1873, over 375,000 copies had been sold in Britain and 158 editions had been published. Despite its widespread appeal among the Victorian readers, the popularity of Keble's The Christian Year quickly faded in the twentieth century.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.