ABSTRACT
Herbert and Keble were often juxtaposed during the nineteenth century, but Keble himself mentioned his greater predecessor only once (see also above, p. 26). The occasion was a lecture on poetry, in the course of which he remarked on the assumption of a shepherd’s guise by pastoral poets. He continued as shown below.
Source: ‘Keble’s Lectures on Poetry 1832–1841’, trans. Edward K. Francis (Oxford, 1912), p. 99. The translation is from the original text in Latin (Oxford, 1854), pp. 471–2.
