# The Christian Year > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Christian_Year > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/The_Christian_Year.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Christian_Year > Source revision: 1339523118 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 1827 series of poems by John Keble For the cycle of liturgical seasons in Christian churches, see [Liturgical year](/source/Liturgical_year). This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "The Christian Year" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (April 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message) **The Christian Year** is a series of poems for all the Sundays and some other feasts of the [liturgical year](/source/Liturgical_year) of the [Church of England](/source/Church_of_England) written by [John Keble](/source/John_Keble) in 1827. The book is the source for several [hymns](/source/Hymn). It was first published in 1827, and quickly became extremely popular. Though at first anonymous, its authorship soon became known, with the result that Keble was in 1831 appointed [Oxford Professor of Poetry](/source/Oxford_Professor_of_Poetry), a post that he held until 1841. In his book *Heaven, Hell, and the Victorians*, Victorian scholar Michael Wheeler calls *The Christian Year* simply "the most popular volume of verse in the nineteenth century".[1] In his essay on "[Tractarian](/source/Tractarian) Aesthetics and the [Romantic](/source/Romantic_Poetry) Tradition," Gregory Goodwin claims that *The Christian Year* is "Keble's greatest contribution to the [Oxford Movement](/source/Oxford_Movement) and to [English literature](/source/English_literature)." As evidence of that, Goodwin cites [E. B. Pusey](/source/E._B._Pusey)'s report that ninety-five editions of this [devotional](/source/Devotional_literature) text were printed during Keble's lifetime, and "at the end of the year following his death, the number had arisen to a hundred-and-nine." By the time the copyright expired in 1873, over 375,000 copies had been sold in Britain and 158 editions had been published. Despite its widespread appeal among the [Victorian](/source/Victorian_era) readers, the popularity of Keble's *The Christian Year* quickly faded in the twentieth century. ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Michael Wheeler, *Heaven, Hell, and the Victorians* (Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 60. ## External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to [The Christian Year](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Christian_Year). English [Wikisource](/source/Wikisource) has original text related to this article: **[The Christian Year](https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/en:Special:Search/The_Christian_Year)** - [Full text of *The Christian Year*](http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4272) at [Project Gutenberg](/source/Project_Gutenberg) - [Christian Year](https://ccel.org/ccel/keble/year) at Christian Classics Ethereal Library --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [The Christian Year](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Christian_Year) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Christian_Year?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.