ABSTRACT
The scholar and occasional poet A.C. Benson was one of those who by the end of the nineteenth century felt that the reiterated comparison of Herbert and Keble – often in the latter’s favour – should be arrested. Such a comparison, he maintained in his evaluation of Keble, is entirely ‘inapt’. The succinct reasons he offered are given in the following extract. See also above, p. 26.
Source: Benson, from The Poetry of Keble, in ‘Essays’ (1896), pp. 196–7.
