John B. Tabb
John B. Tabb | |
---|---|
240px
Rev. John B. Tabb, the Poet-Priest
|
|
Born | John Banister Tabb March 22, 1845 Amelia County, Virginia |
Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Ellicott City, Maryland |
Occupation | Clergyman, writer |
Signature | |
150px |
Father John Banister Tabb[1] (22 March 1845 – 19 November 1909) was an American poet, Roman Catholic priest, and professor of English.
Contents
Biography
John B. Tabb was born in Amelia County, Virginia on March 22, 1845.[2] A member of one of the state's oldest and wealthiest families, he became a blockade runner for the Confederacy during the Civil War, and spent eight months in a Union prison camp (where he formed a lifelong friendship with poet Sidney Lanier); he converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1872, and began to teach Greek and English at Saint Charles College (Ellicott City, Maryland) in 1878.
He was ordained as a priest in 1884, after which he retained his academic position. Plagued by eye problems his whole life, he continued to teach though he lost his sight completely about a year before his death.[3] He died at Saint Charles College on November 19, 1909.[4]
Father Tabb (as he was commonly known) was widely published in popular and prestigious magazines of the day, including Harper's Monthly, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Cosmopolitan. His books of poetry include Poems (1894), Lyrics (1897), Later Lyrics (1902), and, posthumously, Later Poems (1910). He also wrote one prose work, Bone Rules (1897), an English grammar; only one of his sermons has survived, a sermon on the Assumption (August 15, 1894).
English poet Alice Meynell made A Selection from the Verses of John B. Tabb (1906). His biographer, Francis A. Litz, a former student of Tabb's, published previously uncollected poems and previously unpublished poems in Father Tabb: A Study of His Life and Works (1923); Litz also edited a collected edition, The Poetry of Father Tabb (1928).
The Tabb Monument in Amelia County, Virginia is dedicated to his memory.
Notes
- ↑ Although often misspelled as Bannister, the poet's middle name is actually spelled with only one "n", Banister.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
References
- Humiliata, Mary (1947). "Religion and Nature in Father Tabb's Poetry," The Catholic World, Vol. 165, No. 4, pp. 330–36.
- Kelly, John B. (1916). "The Poetry of a Priest," The Catholic World, Vol. CIII, No. 614, pp. 228–33.
- Kessler, Emile (1936). "Tabb and Wordsworth," The Catholic World, Vol. 143, No. 857, pp. 572–76.
- Litz, Francis A. (1923). Father Tabb: A Study of His Life and Works. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press.
- Pine, M. S. (1915). John Bannister Tabb, the Priest-poet. Washington, D.C.: Published for Georgetown Visitation Convent.
- Tabb, Jennie Masters (1922). Father Tabb, His Life and Work: A Memorial. Boston, Mass.: The Stratford Company.
External links
![]() |
Wikiquote has quotations related to: John B. Tabb |
Works
- Works by John B. Tabb at Project Gutenberg
- Works by John B. Tabb at Hathi Trust
- Lua error in Module:Internet_Archive at line 573: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Works by John B. Tabb at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Poetry
- Poems (1894) (Page Images)
- Lyrics (1897) (Page Images)
- Child Verse (1899) (Page Images)
- Later Lyrics (1902) (Page Images)
- The Rosary in Rhyme (1904) (Page Images)
- Quips and Quiddits (1907) (Page Images)
- A Selection from the Verses of John B. Tabb (1906/1910) (Page Images)
- Later Poems (1910) (Page Images)
Prose
Other
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- "Poetry by John B. Tabb: A Centenary Selection"
- Articles with short description
- Use mdy dates from August 2020
- Pages with broken file links
- Biography with signature
- Articles with hCards
- Articles with Internet Archive links
- Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia without Wikisource reference
- 1845 births
- 1909 deaths
- 19th-century American educators
- 19th-century American male writers
- 19th-century American poets
- 19th-century American Roman Catholic priests
- American Catholic poets
- American male poets
- Blockade runners of the Confederate States Navy
- Catholics from Maryland
- Catholics from Virginia
- Converts to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism
- People from Amelia County, Virginia
- People from Ellicott City, Maryland
- People of Virginia in the American Civil War
- Poets from Maryland
- Poets from Virginia
- Schoolteachers from Maryland