Desiderata, that world-famous poem that begins, 'Go placidly amid
the noise and haste', must be one of the best-loved poems in the
English language, revered by many as the ideal philosophy of life.
Few people realise that it was written in 1927 by the Indiana poet
Max Ehrmann who died in 1945 and whose work, until the 1960s, was
largely forgotten. This beautiful little book brings together more
of the writings of this remarkable man, revealing a love of the
world and a concern for its social problems that mark him as one of
the greatest spokesman of the twentieth century. Ehrmann was not
afraid to express his thoughts about the evils and scandals he saw
around him, and in his quest for contentment he turned to nature
and the eternal passage of the seasons: his philosophical thoughts
are a search for social truth and peace. Readers will find in his
poems much that has relevance today. Through Ehrmann we are led to
look again at our twenty-first century values and to turn for truth
and reality to the essence of beauty and goodness that lies all
around us, if we can but open our eyes to see.
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