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Helen Steiner was born in Lorain, Ohio on May 19, 1900. Her father, a railroad worker, died in the influenza epidemic of 1918.She began work for a public utility and progressed to the position of advertising manager, which was rare for a woman at that time.
The writings of a Christian poet are not necessarily classified as Christian poetry nor are writings of secular poets dealing with Christian material. The themes of poetry are necessarily hard to pin down, and what some see as a Christian theme or viewpoint may not be seen by others. A number of modern writers are widely considered to have ...
William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet who served as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. [1] He was a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, retiring in 2016.
Jakob Jocz – third generation Hebrew Christian; Jupiter Hammon (1711–died c. 1806) – former slave and poet from New York; Peter Heylin or Heylyn (1599–1662) – English clergyman and author of many polemical, historical, political and theological tracts; Samuel Butler (1613–1680) – author of the religious and political satire Hudibras
[161] Donaldson wrote that "the poet who put the materials into their present form was a Christian and ... poem reflects a Christian tradition". [63] Other scholars disagree as to whether Beowulf is a Christian work set in a Germanic pagan context. The question suggests that the conversion from the Germanic pagan beliefs to Christian ones was a ...
A 1923 sketch by Gibran for his book Jesus the Son of Man (published 1928) [122] According to Bushrui and Jenkins, Although brought up as a Maronite Christian (see § Childhood), Gibran, as an Arab, was influenced not only by his own religion but also by Islam, especially by the mysticism of the Sufis. His knowledge of Lebanon's bloody history ...
She started composing religious poetry, and became “a renowned writer across the Christian world.” Her popular poems include He Giveth More Grace and Christmas Carols, which were published in Christian Endeavour World and Sunday School Times. [1] [7] Flint passed away on 8 September 1932.
In 1922, Markham's poem "Lincoln, the Man of the People" was selected from 250 entries to be presented at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial. The author himself read the poem. Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton said of the poem, "Edwin Markham's Lincoln is the greatest poem ever written on the immortal martyr, and the greatest that ever will ...