It was one of Wordsworth’s John Keble, professor of poetry at Oxford, who was real founder of the “Oxford Movement.”

The first impulse for reaction against secular authority was given by his sermon on, “national apostasy” in 1833. But these very ideas had been expressed as early as 1827 in his Christian year, a series of religious poems appropriate to the religious festivals of the year, a sort of commentary on the Anglican liturgy, full of gentle are not of the first order, but they had a considerable success and were soon to be found in the majority of English homes.