Edmond Holmes

Edmond Gore Alexander Holmes (1850–1936) was an Irish poetry}Irish poet, educationalist, and prose writer. His Creed of the Buddha (1908) is well known; he also wrote a pantheist text All is One: A Plea for a Higher Pantheism.

Life
and poet who was born at Moycashel, co. Westmeath, Ireland. He was also a schools inspector, rising to become chief inspector for elementary schools in 1905. He resigned in 1911, over a confidential memorandum criticising school inspectors who had formerly been elementary school teachers. This angered the teachers' union and it led to the downfall of Robert Morant the permanent secretary to the Board of Education when it became public. Holmes 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.

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

Publications
Other books were

Poetry

 * Poems (1876)
 * Poems (1879)
 * The Triumph of Love (1903)
 * Sonnets to the Universe (1918)
 * Sonnets and Poems

Prose

 * A Confession of Faith. By an Unorthodox Believer (1895)
 * The Silence of Love (1901)
 * Walt Whitman's Poetry: A Study & A Selection (1902)
 * The Creed of Christ (1905)
 * The Creed of the Buddha (1908)
 * What Is and What Might Be (1911)
 * The Creed of My Heart (1912)
 * In Defence of What Might Be (1914)
 * Experience of Reality. A Study of Mysticism (1928)
 * Philosophy Without Metaphysics (1930)
 * The Headquarters of Reality. A Challenge to Western Thought (1933).