Quaker Poets, Past & Present

by Mary Hoxie Jones

Overview

Where does worship end and poetry begin? or poetry end and worship begin? How many Friends have tried to settle themselves in worship by remembering favorite poems or verses from the Bible? And how many Friends have written poems as the result of a particularly good, or even a bad, meeting for worship? I have found myself groping for a message in meeting, achieving only a half-baked idea to which I have clung, and at some later date it has written itself into a poem. The experience of worship, or the experience of trying to worship--the former is all too rare an achievement--and the experience of writing a poem can complement each other.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940156998562
Publisher:	Pendle Hill Publications
Publication date:	07/16/2016
Series:	Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #202
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	282 KB

About the Author

Mary Hoxie Jones, is former president of the American Friends Historical Association, was president of the British Friends Historical Society 1973-1974. In this capacity she was asked to give the Society’s presidential address on August 19, 1974, during the sessions of London Yearly Meeting, which was held at York University. Her subject was Quakers and poetry. The Society has graciously given the Pendle Hill Publications Committee permission to issue this address as a pamphlet.

A graduate of Mount Holyoke College, Mary Hoxie Jones is presently Research Associate in Quaker Studies at the Haverford College Library. She is the author of several books, including two volumes of poetry, Arrows of Desire (Macmillan, 1931) and Beyond This Stone (Golden Quill Press, 1965), and has another volume in preparation.