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Vergilian Allusions in Newman’s “Kindly Light”
- Newman Studies Journal
- The Catholic University of America Press
- Volume 4, Number 2, Fall 2007
- pp. 5-10
- 10.1353/nsj.2007.0015
- Article
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Abstract:
What is the literary antecedent to Newman’s famous “Lead, Kindly Light”? This essay proposes that Newman’s phrase–“Kindly Light”– is an allusion to a specific passage of Vergil’s Aeneid. Understood in this light, Newman’s poem is a prologue to the epic journey Newman began as he returned to England to commence the Oxford Movement.