Devotional poems for every Sunday and holy day of the Anglican calendar, turning the church's seasons into quiet meditation.
Books that mention The Christian Year (7)
Middlemarch by George Eliot: “Casaubon, to her old companion Pascal, and Keble's "Christian Year."”
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot: “Beauties of the Spectator," "Rasselas," "Economy of Human Life," "Gregory's Letters,"--she knew the sort of matter that was inside all these; the "Christian Year,"--that seemed to be a hymnbook, and she laid it down again; but _Thomas à Kempis?”
The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes: “From the divinity-student came the loveliest English edition of "Keble's Christian Year."”
Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey: “The superabundance of his piety overflowed into verse; and the holy simplicity of the Christian Year carried his name into the remotest lodging-houses of England.”
The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell: “It's Keble's _The Christian Year_, a series of poems on religious themes, perhaps you know it.”
The Odd Women by George Gissing: “Alice turned over 'The Christian Year,' and endeavoured to console herself out of it, whilst her sister prepared the meal.”
The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge: “CHAPTER 33 From darkness here and dreariness, We ask not full repose. --CHRISTIAN YEAR”