The best literary appreciation of Keats is by Matthew Arnold, in Ward's English Poets, vol. iv. Consult: Alilnes, Life, Letters, and Literary Re mains of Keats (London, 18-18; rev. 1867) ; Lowell, The Political Works of Keats, with Life (Boston, 1S54, 1S73) ; complete edition of Works, edited by Forman (4 lois., London, 1SS3; rev. 1889) ; the Cambridge edition of Works (Boston, 1899) ; Letters of Keats to His Family, edited by Colvin (London, 1591) ; and for his Life, Colvin (London, 1SS7) ; Rossetti, Poetical Works of Keats with a Memoir, which has a bibliography (ib., 1587) : Hoops, Keats' -legend and Jugend gedichte (Leipzig, 1895 ) ; Texte, " Keats et le Neo Hellenisme dans la podsie anglaise," in Etuths de litterature curopeenne (Paris, IS9S) ; Gothein, John Keats' Leben and Werke (Halle, 1897) ; and Henry C. Shelley, Keats and His Circle (New York, 1902).
KErBLE, JOHN ( 1792-1S66). An English divine and poet. He was born at Fairford, in Gloucestershire, and at the age of fifteen won a scholarship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. After winning the distinction of a double first, he was elected fellow of Oriel, which brought him into the most distinguished intellectual society in the university. In 1812 lie also won both the English and Latin prize essays. He was ordained deacon in 1815. and priest in ISM. Neither the prospect of emolument at Oxford, nor the attrac tions of the Oriel common room, of which Whate ly and Copleston were then members, and to which Arnold. Newman, and Fusey were soon to be added, could tempt him from the career he had chosen, that of a parish priest. He took duty in Gloucestershire, occasionally receiving pupils, among whom were Robert Wilberforce, Isaac Williams, and Hurrell'Froude. From 1936,
when he accepted the living of Horsley, near Win chester, which he had once before declined on the around of his father's health, his life was spent mostly in this small country parish. devot ed faithfully to its simple duties, though he ex erted great influence throughout England by a vast correspondence. Quiet and retiring as lie was. he is yec considered. on Newman's testimony, as the real author of the Oxford Movement, to which lie is held to have given the impulse by his sermon on 'National Apostasy.' preached at Ox ford in 1833. His important contributions to the literature of the movement were his share in the translations of the Library of the Fathers, and in the for the Times, of which he wrote seven, besides being ultimately associated in counsel with the other authors. His church manship was, how-ever, always marked by a sober attachment to Anglican traditions. and he was neeply grieved by Newman's secession, in which he never dreamed of following him. This mental attitude was not only expressed. hut confirmed in thousands of others. by The Christian Year, a volume of verse which he published in 1927. and which had a remarkable success and influence, not equaled by that of his later volume, Lyra Innorentium (1,9461. He was professor of poetry :It Oxford from 1531 to 1841. He died at Bourne mouth, March 29, 1S66. A movement was im mediately begun to provide a permanent memo rial to him, and resulted in the foundation of Keble College. Oxford (q.v.). Consult: Lives by Sir J. T. Coleridge (London. 1969), and by Walter Look_ warden of Keble College ( ib., 1S92) : also Newman, Apologia pro 1 ito Sun, and an essay in Shairp, Mudies in Poetry and Philosophy (Edinburgh, 'SUS ) .