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William Hughes Mearns (1875–1965), better known as Hughes Mearns, was an American educator and poet. A graduate of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania, Mearns was a professor at the Philadelphia School of Pedagogy from 1905 to 1920. Mearns is remembered now as the author of the poem "Antigonish" (or "The Little Man Who Wasn ...
In 1910, Mearns staged the play with the Plays and Players, an amateur theatrical group, and on March 27, 1922, the newspaper columnist F.P.A. printed the poem in "The Conning Tower", his column in the New York World. [2] [3] Mearns subsequently wrote many parodies of this poem, giving them the general title of Later Antigonishes. [4]
The words of the hymn were initially written by St. Francis of Assisi [2] in 1225 in the Canticle of the Sun poem, which was based on Psalm 148. [3] The words were translated into English by William Draper, who at the time was rector of a Church of England parish church at Adel near Leeds. Draper paraphrased the words of the Canticle and set ...
In Rubén Darío's poem "Los Motivos del Lobo " ("The Reasons of the Wolf") St. Francis tames a terrible wolf only to discover that the human heart harbours darker desires than those of the beast. In Fyodor Dostoevsky 's The Brothers Karamazov , Ivan Karamazov invokes the name of "Pater Seraphicus", an epithet applied to St. Francis, to ...
Memorial engraving of global religious leaders at the first "World Day of Prayer for Peace", in Assisi. In 1986, Pope John Paul II recited the prayer as a means of bidding farewell to the global religious leaders he hosted for the first "World Day of Prayer for Peace", in Assisi at the Basilica of St. Francis. [44]
Longfellow wrote the poem in 1875. It was included in an anthology he edited titled Poems of Places in 1877 and also republished after his death in Through Italy with the Poets in 1908. [1] According to scholar William Charvat, the poem is like many of Longfellow's later writings in that it touches upon the poet's struggle with fame.
Little Flowers of Francis of Assisi is the name given to the classic collection of popular legends about the life of Francis of Assisi and his early companions. The main body of the collection was translated into Italian by an unknown fourteenth-century friar from a larger Latin work, the Actus B. Francisci et Sociorum Ejus, attributed to Ugolino Brunforte.
The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry by Cleanth Brooks and Paul Rand. Harcourt, Brace 1975 ISBN 9780156957052 "Review of Poems, in Two Volumes by Francis Jeffrey, in Edinburgh Review, pp. 214–231, vol. XI, October 1807 – January 1808; Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 in audio on Poetry Foundation