James Cousins, Born

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).