Edmond Holmes

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Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes (1850-1936) was an English writer and poet. His The Creed of the Buddha (1908) is well known; he also wrote a pantheist text All is One: A Plea for a Higher Pantheism.

Words from his The Triumph of Love were set to music by the composer Charles Villiers Stanford, a friend.

He was also a schools inspector, rising to a senior level and resigning in 1911, in disagreement on curriculum policy. His subsequent writings on education are taken as an early statement of 'progressive' and 'child-centred' positions, and are still cited. Later works come close to theosophy.

Other books were

  • Poems (1876)
  • Poems (1879)
  • A Confession of Faith. By an Unorthodox Believer (1895)
  • The Silence of Love (1901)
  • Walt Whitman's Poetry: A Study & A Selection (1902)
  • The Triumph of Love (1903)
  • The Creed of Christ (1905)
  • What Is and What Might Be (1911)
  • The Creed of My Heart (1912)
  • In Defence of What Might Be (1914)
  • Sonnets to the Universe (1918)
  • Sonnets and Poems
  • Experience of Reality. A Study of Mysticism (1928)
  • Philosophy Without Metaphysics (1930)
  • The Headquarters of Reality. A Challenge to Western Thought (1933).

[edit] Reference

Edmond Holmes and the Tragedy of Education (1998) Chris Shute.

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