The Influence of the Oxford Movement on Poetry

As a source of literature the Oxford Movement, beginning in 1833, occupies a place unique and apart. Over three thousand volumes on this Movement are said to have issued from the press, reviewing the entire history, its outstanding features, its inner spirit, and its lasting effects. It was a sudden ripening of varied fruit on a vine that seemed barren, for its first phase rose out of the Church of England, at that time seemingly satisfied with its Erastianism; the second phase opened when John Henry Newman seceded to Rome, and then divided into two channels -- the Anglo-Catholic flood in the National Church, and the Roman Restoration