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== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_51740" /> == | |||
<p> a | <p> an [[Anglican]] clergyman, very noted especially as a writer of sacred poetry, was born at Bath, England, in 1807, and was educated at [[Lincoln]] College, Oxford, where he secured his A.B. in 1833, and A.M. in 1838. [[He]] took holy orders in 1835; became curate of Whittington, subsequently (1836) removed to [[London]] as minister of [[Percy]] [[Street]] [[Episcopal]] Chapel; afterwards went to Glasgow, where he preached for four years, but returned to London, and resumed functions at Percy Street [[Chapel]] in 1843, and there preached until his death, [[December]] 3, 1855. Montgomery's works comprise a large number of volumes in prose and verse, on themes more or less sacred. He is best known by his poem The [[Omnipresence]] of the [[Deity]] (1828), which has passed through twenty-eight editions, and The [[Christian]] Life: a [[Manual]] of [[Sacred]] [[Verse]] (1848,12mo; 6th edition, 1853, 24mo). The former of these provoked unusual severity of criticism — even lord Macaulay unmercifully poured his invectives against it: "His works have received more enthusiastic praise, and have deserved more unmixed contempt, than any which, as far as our knowledge extends, have appeared within the last three or four years... </p> <p> The circulation of this writer's poetry has been greater than that of Southey's Roderick, and beyond all comparison greater than that of Cary's Dante, or of the best works of Coleridge" (Macaulay, Essays, 1:257, 265-7, 269, 276). Nevertheless, as has been well said, the book must have pleased, or people would not have bought it in the face of such unfavorable comments. It must be stated also that the work on its appearance met with the high commendations of those illustrious writers, Southey, Wilson, Alison, and [[Sharon]] Turner. Montgomery's Christian [[Life]] was generally commended; and some Anglican writers were most enthusiastic in its praise. The [[Church]] of [[England]] [[Quarterly]] (April 9, 1849, No. 50, page 286) pronounced it "far superior to anything else from the author; and, of all the uninspired collections of religious poetry which any poet has ever produced in any Church or age or country, there is none which, in our opinion, can venture a comparison — intellectual or poetical with Montgomery's Christian Life." </p> <p> A writer in the [[Scottish]] [[Magazine]] goes even further: "To eulogize this divine now as a successful Christian poet would be to offer an indignity to all who have the slightest knowledge of what is passing in the literary world. [[His]] Omnipresence long ago stamped him as one of our greatest poets... We must, however, express our honest conviction that the present volume manifests higher and more intrinsic beauties and excellences than any one of his previous poetic works. And what will very much enhance it in the opinion of all true [[Churchmen]] is the fact that it is a thoroughly Church volumebreathing and inculcating her scriptural and catholic verities, exhibiting her in the thrilling and beautiful expression of a fond and sacred mother, who lovingly cares and unweariedly provides for the spiritual wants and comforts of her children. While all these poems are fraught with deep truth and lofty sentiments, portraying in poetical form the Church's creed and character, the duties and dangers the hopes and fears, the faults, privileges, and final destinies of a believer in the religion of Christ,... we must declare that we have not read anything more beautiful and heavenly, more eloquent and pathetic, than the poems on 'Baptism,' 'Visitation of the Sick.' 'Burial of the Dead,' 'Commination,' and the 'Eucharist.' </p> <p> [[Nothing]] like this volume has appeared since the 'Christian Year,' whether we' consider its style and tone, its sentiments, the variety of its metres, or the harmony of its verse. It is a 'Voice of the Church,' a kind of second 'Christian Year.' A list of all his works is given by Allibone (Diet. of Brit. and Amer. Auth. 2:1348-9). We have room only for mention of his other religious works. [[Of]] those in verse: A [[Universal]] Prayer, Death, Heaven, [[Hell]] (1828, 4to, and often): Satan: or [[Intellect]] without [[God]] (1830): — The [[Messiah]] (1832): — Luther; or the [[Ideal]] of the [[Reformation]] (1842): — The Sacred Gift: a [[Series]] of Meditations upon [[Scripture]] Subjects (1842): — The Sanctuary: a [[Companion]] in Verse for the [[English]] Prayer-book (1855). Of those in prose: The [[Gospel]] in [[Advance]] of the Age: a homily for the Times, with an [[Introduction]] on the [[Spirit]] of the [[Bible]] and the Spirit of the [[Age]] (1st ed. 1847; 3d ed. revised and rearranged, with additional matter, etc., 1848, and often since): — The Ideal of the English Church (1845): — [[Christ]] our [[All]] in All (1845): — [[Eight]] Sermons: being [[Reflective]] Discourses on some [[Important]] Texts (1843, 8vo): — The [[Great]] Salvation, and our [[Sin]] in [[Neglecting]] it: a [[Religious]] Essay, in [[Three]] Parts (1846): — The Scottish Church, the English Schismatics (1846; 3d ed. with documentary evidence, 1847, 12mo). A collected edition of his poetical works (in 6 volumes, 8vo) was published in 1839-40, and his Christian Poetry, by Ed. Farr, in 1854 (12mo). Selections from them were also made under the title, [[Religion]] and Poetry, with an [[Introductory]] [[Essay]] by [[Archer]] Gurney (1847, 8vo); and [[Lyra]] Christiana (1851, 32mo). [[See]] Fraser's Magazine, 1:95, 721; 4:672; Westm. Rev. 12:355; Lond. Month. Rev. 117, 30; 121, 313; Blackwood's Magazine, 23:751-71; 26:241 sq.; Lond. Gentleman's Mag. 1856, part 1:313; [Lond.] Athenceum, 1832, page 348; South. Qu. Rev. 2:290; N.Y. Lit. and Theol. Review, 1:688; Breen, Mod. Eng. Lit.: its [[Blemishes]] and Defcts (1857), page 206; Koenen, Voorlozing over den Engelschen Dichter [[Rob.]] Montgomery (Amst. 1853, 8vo); and the excellent and very full article in Allibone's Dict, of Brit. and Amer. Auth. s.v. (J.H.W.) </p> | ||
== The Nuttall Encyclopedia <ref name="term_76771" /> == | |||
<p> [[Author]] of "The [[Omnipresence]] of Deity" and "Satan," born at Bath, son of a clown; passed undistinguished through Oxford, and was minister of [[Percy]] [[Street]] Chapel, London; all his many works are forgotten save the above, which lives in Macaulay's famous review (1807-1855). </p> | |||
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