James Rhoades

British poet
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IntroBritish poet
PlacesUnited Kingdom Great Britain
wasPoet Writer
Work fieldLiterature
Gender
Male
Birth1 January 1841
Death1 January 1923 (aged 82 years)
The details

Biography

James Rhoades (1841–1923) was an Anglo–Irish poet, translator and author. He worked as a schoolmaster.

Life

Rhoades was born in Clonmel, and was educated at Rugby School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1864 and M.A. in 1867. He taught at Haileybury College and Sherborne School. Between those posts, while his wife was ill, he was a tutor in Bournemouth.

Works

Rhoades has been described as "a conventional poet who wrote of imperial war in a conservative idiom and a grandiloquent style".

He was author of The City of the five gates (Chapman & Hall, 1913) which gives as a preface note:

"The following poem is intended to convey the doctrine of what is often mistermed 'The New Thought'; namely, that by conscious union with the indwelling Principle of Life, man may attain completeness here and now. 'Out of the Silence,' while structurally conforming to the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, is directly opposite in its teaching."

A quote from this pamphlet (from Out of the Silence) was included in The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. 1917 (Nicholson & Lee, eds) as is O Soul of Mine.

Rhoades is quoted with approval by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch in On the Art of Reading (1920).

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