Selected Poetry and Prose of Edmond Holmes

John Howlett

This book represents the first scholarly gathering together of the long-neglected poetry of the School Inspector, educationalist and philosopher Edmond Holmes (1850 – 1936). Alongside a generous selection from Holmes’s six volumes of poetry there is also a full reproduction of Holmes’s essay What is Poetry which served to delineate his thinking on the discipline. Supporting these original works is both a lengthy scholarly introduction and extensive endnotes which serve to locate Holmes’s poetry not merely within the context of its time and amongst his own contemporaries but also to make a case for the importance of this body of work in its own right particularly in its promulgation of original and innovative ideas. Holmes’s poetry represents a particularly unique combination of traditional verse form coupled with innovative and esoteric subject matter (often drawing upon Eastern Buddhist philosophy as well as Western Romanticism and Pantheism) and so deserves to be more widely recognized as being wholly distinctive within the canon of Victorian and Modern poetry.

University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Pages: 200 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½

978-1-61147-928-7 • Hardback • May 2016 • $88.00 • (£68.00)

978-1-61147-929-4 • eBook • May 2016 • $83.50 • (£64.00)

Subjects: Literary Criticism / Poetry, Literary Collections / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Selected Poetry and Prose of Edmond Holmes

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This book represents the first scholarly gathering together of the long-neglected poetry of the School Inspector, educationalist and philosopher Edmond Holmes (1850 – 1936). Alongside a generous selection from Holmes’s six volumes of poetry there is also a full reproduction of Holmes’s essay What is Poetry which served to delineate his thinking on the discipline. Supporting these original works is both a lengthy scholarly introduction and extensive endnotes which serve to locate Holmes’s poetry not merely within the context of its time and amongst his own contemporaries but also to make a case for the importance of this body of work in its own right particularly in its promulgation of original and innovative ideas. Holmes’s poetry represents a particularly unique combination of traditional verse form coupled with innovative and esoteric subject matter (often drawing upon Eastern Buddhist philosophy as well as Western Romanticism and Pantheism) and so deserves to be more widely recognized as being wholly distinctive within the canon of Victorian and Modern poetry.

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University Press Copublishing Division / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Pages: 200 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½

978-1-61147-928-7 • Hardback • May 2016 • $88.00 • (£68.00)

978-1-61147-929-4 • eBook • May 2016 • $83.50 • (£64.00)

Subjects: Literary Criticism / Poetry, Literary Collections / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Author

John Howlett is a lecturer in education studies within the School of Social Science and Public Policy at the University of Keele.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Poems (1876)
Poems Second Series (1879)
The Silence of Love (1899)
The Triumph of Love (1903)
The Creed of my Heart and other poems (1912)
Sonnets to the Universe (1918)
APPENDIX A: What is Poetry? (1900)
APPENDIX B: Holmes’ Obituary in The Times, October 16^th 1936
APPENDIX C: Holmes’ Obituary in The New York Times
Notes

Selected Poetry and Prose of Edmond Holmes

John Howlett

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