RPO -- Selected Poetry of John Henry Newman, Cardinal (1801-1890)

Selected Poetry of John Henry Newman, Cardinal (1801-1890)

from Representative Poetry On-line
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto
from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967.
RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire
A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries
© 2009, Ian Lancashire for the Department of English, University of Toronto

Index to poems

The night is dark, and I am far from home --
Lead Thou me on!
(The Pillar of the Cloud, 3-4)

The Pillar of the Cloud (Lead, Kindly Light)

Notes on Life and Works

John Henry Newman converted from the Church of England to Roman Catholicism in 1845 and was ordained in Rome the next year. His Apologia pro Vita Sua (1864), The Grammar of Assent (1870), and The Idea of a University (1873) are important treatises in nineteenth-century English thought. Besides his religious poetry, Newman also published two novels, Loss and Gain (1848) and Callista (1856). He was named Cardinal in 1879 and declared Venerable in 1991 by Pope John Paul II.

Ker, Ian. John Henry Newman: A Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1988.
Ker, Ian. "Newman, John Henry (1801-1890)." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004.
Newman, John Henry. Works. 36 vols. London: Longmans, Green, 1868–81.

Biographical information

Given name: John Henry
Family name: Newman
Honorific: Cardinal
Birth date: 21 February 1801
Death date: 11 August 1890
Nationality: English
Family relations
father: John Newman
mother: Jemima Newman
brother: Charles Robert Newman
brother: Francis William Newman
sister: Harriet Elizabeth Mozley
sister: Jemima Charlotte Mozley
sister: Mary Sophia Newman
Languages
English
Latin
Greek
Education
Ealing School (secondary education): 1808
Trinity College, Oxford (B.A.): 14 December 1816 to 1820
Lincoln's Inn: 1819
Religions
Anglican to 1830
Roman Catholic: 1830
Honours
Trinity scholarship: 1818
Honorary fellow of Trinity College, Oxford: 1877
declared Venable by Pope John Paul II: 1991
Literary period: Victorian
Occupations
Tutor
Deacon: 13 June 1824
Priest: 1846
Cardinal: 12 May 1879
Residences
London: 21 February 1801
Dublin: 1854
Birmingham: 1858
Illness: Typhoid fever: 1833
Cause of death: Pneumonia
Buried at: "the grave of Ambrose St John at the Oratory country house at Rednal, outside Birmingham" (DNB)
First RPO edition: 1998