James Rhoades (1841 – 15 March 1923) was anAnglo–Irish poet, translator and author. He worked as a schoolmaster.[1][2]
Rhoades was born inClonmel,County Tipperary and was educated atRugby School andTrinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1864 and M.A. in 1867. He taught atHaileybury College andSherborne School.[2] Between those posts, while his wife was ill, he was a tutor inBournemouth.[3]
Rhoades married Charlotte Elizabeth Lester, daughter ofLieutenant GeneralSir Frederick Parkinson Lester, they had two sons and two daughters together.[4] He married secondly Alice Hunt, daughter of John Hunt.[4]
Rhoades died inKelvedon on 15 March 1923.[5]
Rhoades has been described as "a conventional poet who wrote of imperial war in a conservative idiom and a grandiloquent style".[3]
He was author ofThe 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 theRubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, is directly opposite in its teaching.
A quote from this pamphlet (fromOut of the Silence) was included inThe Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse (1917, Nicholson & Lee, eds) as isO Soul of Mine.
Rhoades is quoted with approval bySir Arthur Quiller-Couch inOn the Art of Reading (1920).[6]
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