The Dream of Gerontius

T. N. Foulis, London. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 73pp. brown paper-covered boards (brown cloth spine is missing) and gilt lettering/illustration. 8 small tipped-in color illustrations from water-color drawings by Robert T. Rose.Originally an evangelical Oxford academic and clergyman in the Church of England, Newman was a leader in the Oxford Movement. This influential grouping of Anglicans wished to return the Church of England to many Catholic beliefs and forms of worship. He left the Anglican church and converted to Roman Catholicism (1845), eventually being granted the rank of Cardinal by Pope Leo XIII. His beatification was officially proclaimed by Pope Benedict XVI on 19 September 2010 during his visit to the United Kingdom.[1] Newman was also a literary figure of note, his major writings including his autobiography Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1865¿66), the Grammar of Assent (1870), and the poem The Dream of Gerontius (1865), set to music in 1900 by Edward Elgar as an oratorio.[3] He wrote the popular hymns Lead, Kindly Light and Praise to the Holiest in the Height (taken from Gerontius).…