James Rhoades
{{Short description|British poet}}
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James Rhoades (1841 – 15 March 1923) was an Anglo–Irish poet, translator and author. He worked as a schoolmaster.{{cite book|author=Frederick Wilse Bateson|title=The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uak8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA355|year=1940|publisher=CUP Archive|page=355|id=GGKEY:SQT257C7TNL}}{{cite book|author=Catherine Reilly|title=Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1860-1879|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bzRDJeN4KxQC&pg=PA389|year=2000|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-7201-2318-0|page=389}}
Life
Rhoades was born in Clonmel, County Tipperary 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.{{cite book|author1=Thierry Terret|author2=J. A. Mangan|title=Sport, Militarism and the Great War: Martial Manliness and Armageddon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=acTcAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA180|date=13 September 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-76088-5|pages=180–1}}
Rhoades married Charlotte Elizabeth Lester, daughter of Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Parkinson Lester, they had two sons and two daughters together.{{cite web|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-202146?rskey=lmpb81&result=1|title=Who's Who|publisher=Oxford University Press}} He married secondly Alice Hunt, daughter of John Hunt.
Rhoades died in Kelvedon on 15 March 1923.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41341169/james_rhoades/ |title=James Rhoades |work=Victoria Daily Times |location=Kelvedon |page=2 |date=16 March 1923 |accessdate=30 December 2019 |via=Newspapers.com}}
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. "[http://www.bartleby.com/236/177.html 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).{{cite book|author=Arthur Quiller-Couch|title=On The Art of Reading|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=st72G0ZjhHoC&pg=PA110|date=18 September 2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-73683-1|page=110}}
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External links
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Category:Translators of Virgil
Category:Writers from County Tipperary