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.
