John Keble had an immense influence on nineteenthcentury literature and culture. A founding figure of the Oxford Movement he was mythologized as the living embodiment of Christian ideals. His 1827 volume of verse The Christian Year was the bestselling book of poetry in the Victorian era while his lectures as Oxford Professor of Poetry were highly influential. Those indebted to his ideas include figures as diverse as John Henry Newman Christina Rossetti and Alfred Tennyson. Despite his evident