William Cleaver Wilkinson
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| Born | October 19, 1833 Westford, Vermont |
| Died | April 25, 1920 (aged 86) Chicago, Illinois |
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| Occupation(s) | Clergyman, educator |
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William Cleaver Wilkinson, D.D. (October 19, 1833, in
He graduated from the
His "Dedication Hymn" (published in his Poems) was used at the dedication of Rockefeller Hall at the Rochester Theological Seminary and of the
In 1892, he became a professor of poetry and criticism at the University of Chicago.[1] In 1893, Wilkinson spoke on limited tolerance of inter-religious relations but the denial of truth outside of Christianity at the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago delivering the lecture, The Attitude of Christianity toward other Religions.[2]
In 1905, his daughter Evelyn, aged 20, married a 55-year-old man who had divorced his wife; Wilkinson and his wife "denounced their daughter for marrying a man who cast off one wife to wed another".[3]
He died on April 25, 1920, as a result of injuries from a fall.[1]
Publications
- 1868 The Dance of Modern Society full text
- 1874 A Free Lance in the Field of Life and Letters
- 1882 Preparatory Greek Course in English (the "in English" books are literature in translation)
- 1883 Preparatory Latin Course in English
- 1884 College Greek Course in English
- 1885 College Latin Course in English
- 1886 Classic French Course in English full text
- 1883 Poems
- 1884 Edwin Arnold as Poetizer and as Paganizer, including An Examination Of The "Light Of Asia" For Its Literature And For Its Buddhism
- 1887 Classic German course in English
- 1888 The Baptist denomination
- 1891 The epic of Saul
- 1897 The Baptist principle in application to baptism and the Lord's Supper
- 1897 The epic of Paul
- 1905 Modern masters of pulpit discourse
- 1905 Poems
- 1905 The epic of Moses : a p
Notes
- ^ a b New York Times obituary
- ^ Barrows, John Henry, The World's Parliament of Religions: An Illustrated and Popular Story of the World's First Parliament of Religions, Held in Chicago in connection with the Columbian Exposition of 1893, Volume 2. Chicago: The Parliament Publishing Company, 1893, 1243-1249.
- ^ New York Times, June 28, 1905
References
- This article is based on the public-domain article on Wilkinson in Henry Sweetser, Baptist Hymn Writers and Their Hymns (Portland, Maine, 1888). full text at Google Books
External links
- Works by William Cleaver Wilkinson at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about William Cleaver Wilkinson at Internet Archive
- Works by William Cleaver Wilkinson at Open Library
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