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Characteristics of the Oxford Movement Characteristics of the Oxford Movement
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T. S. Eliot and Anglo-Catholicism T. S. Eliot and Anglo-Catholicism
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John Betjeman and W. H. Auden John Betjeman and W. H. Auden
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Rose Macaulay, Dorothy Sayers, and Barbara Pym Rose Macaulay, Dorothy Sayers, and Barbara Pym
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Conclusion Conclusion
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References and Further Reading References and Further Reading
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38 The Twentieth-Century Literary Tradition
Get accessBarry Spurr was educated at Canberra Grammar School and the Universities of Sydney and Oxford. He was a member of the Department of English at the University of Sydney for forty years and was Australia’s first Professor of Poetry and Poetics. Professor Spurr’s numerous books and other publications cover the fields of literature, and theological and liturgical aspects of it, from the Renaissance to contemporary poetry. His best-known monographs are Studying Poetry (1997), now in its second edition, See the Virgin Blest: Representations of the Virgin Mary in English Poetry (2007), and, most recently, ‘Anglo-Catholic in Religion’: T. S. Eliot and Christianity (2010).
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Published:06 July 2017
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Abstract
This chapter explores significant aspects of the Tractarian tradition, surviving into the twentieth century, in the works of T. S. Eliot, John Betjeman, W. H. Auden, Rose Macaulay, Charles Williams, Dorothy Sayers, and Barbara Pym. By the twentieth century, virtually every reference in literature to Anglican faith and practice reflected the Oxford Movement, but the most concentrated influence of Tractarianism is to be found in the writers discussed here. All of them, at various periods in their lives, were deeply immersed in the Catholic movement of the Church of England and their poetry and prose must be appreciated in light of that commitment and tradition.
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