Life
1847-1893; ‘Brother Azarias’; b. Co. Tipperary, Christian Bother
in America, having emigrated young; President of Rock Hill College, Maryland;
d. New York; wrote works incl. ‘Philosophy of Literature’, ‘Development
of English Literature’; Sonnets [of] the English poets, and addresses
on thinking. JMC
References
Irish Literature, gen. ed. Justin McCarthy (Washington:
Catholic Univ. of America 1904), selects passage on Emerson [as in Quotations,
supra.]
Quotations
Extract on Emerson: ‘Unfortunately for Emerson the value of his utterances,
he ignores the supernatural in man. His view of religion is that of a
merely human institution’), and Newman, whom he was honoured to meet
in Birmingham; also a sonnet on Milton (‘.. bold I deem thy flight;
/ Unsanctified, unbidden, thou didst wing / Thy pathless way off tow’rd
the secret spring / Of God’s decrees, and read them not aright.’
(Selected in Justin McCarthy, ed., Irish Literature, Washington
1904.)
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