John Keble and Hurrell Froude in pastoral dialogue.
From: Victorian Poetry
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Date: 3/22/2006
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Author: Gelpi, Barbara Charlesworth
The relationship between John Keble and Hurrell Froude is arguably the bedrock or foundation stone of the Tractarian Movement. Froude himself makes that argument with a characteristically vivid metaphor: "Keble is my fire but I am his poker." (1) That is to say, Keble's deeply held religious convictions formed the central Tractarian tenets, including those of its poetics, but their "fire" would not have blazed into view had it not been stirred up by Froude and, through Froude, by ...
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