John Keble was one of many clergymen whom Ruskin encountered during his time as an undergraduate at Christ Church College, Oxford. As Professor of Poetry for the University, Keble 'corrected Ruskin's Newdigate Prize poem, 'Salsette and Elephanta' (Wheeler, 2000, pp.14-15). Ruskin admired Keble's devotional verse companion to The Book of Common Prayer, The Christian Year (1827) and he took the volume with him to the Alps ( Evans and Whitehouse, Diaries II, p.498). As a High Churchman, Keble's religious practice was unlike the Evangelicalism in which Ruskin was brought up and contrasts particularly with the 'dissenting' tendencies of his youthful world-view. However, Ruskin was confirmed into the Anglican communion in 22 April 1837 by the Rt Revd Richard Bagot, Bishop of Oxford. Modern Painters II was also influenced by the Anglican theology of Hooker. Keble had produced an edition of Hooker's sixteenth-century defence of the Church of England in 1836.