July 22, 1873
James Cousins, born
Ireland
James Henry Cousins (22 July 1873 – 20 February 1956) was an Anglo-Irish writer, playwright, actor, critic, editor, teacher and poet. He used several pseudonyms, including Mac Oisín and the Hindu name Jayaram.
Cousins and wife Margaret were interested in anti-vivisection, theosophy, vegetarianism and women’s suffrage.
They were both strict vegetarians and in 1905 founded the Irish Vegetarian Society.
Cousins lectured on “The Cruelties and Diseases Connected with Flesh-Eating” which was awarded first prize at the Vegetarian Federal Union in June 1907.
POEMS BY JAMES H. COUSINS
- The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. Ed. Nicholson & Lee. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1917.
- Padraic Colum (1881–1972).
- Anthology of Irish Verse. 1922.
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- The Legend of the Blemished King and Other Poems (1897)
- The Quest (1906)
- The Bell-Branch (1908)
- The Wisdom of the West (1912)
- Etain the Beloved and Other Poems (1912)
- The Bases of Theosophy (1913)
- The Renaissance in India (1918)
- The King’s Wife (1919)
- Sea-Change (1920)
- The Cultural Unity of Asia (1922)
- Work and Worship: Essays on Culture and Creative Art (1922)
- The New Japan: Impressions and Reflections (with 74 illustrations) (1923)
- Heathen Essays (1925)
- A Tibetan Banner (1926)
- Above the Rainbow and Other Poems (1926)
- A Wandering Harp: Selected Poems (1932)
- A Bardic Pilgrimage (1934)
- Collected Poems (1940)
- The Faith Of The Artist. (1941)
- The Work Promethean (1970)
BIOGRAPHIES/CRITICISM
- A Wandering Harp: James H. Cousins, a Study. C.N. Mangala. (B.R. Publishing, 1995).
- James Henry Cousins: A Study of His Works in the Light of Theosophical Movement. Dilip Kumar Chatterjee. (South Asia Books, 1994).
- James Cousins. William A. Dumbleton. (Twayne Publishing, 1980).