Francis P. Donnelly

Francis P. Donnelly

Francis Patrick Donnelly SJ (10 December 1869 – 18 April 1959) was an American Roman Catholic priest, poet, hymn composer, education writer and professor of rhetoric at Fordham University.

Biography

He was born at Pittston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and was educated at Villanova College and St. John's College. After joining the Jesuits in 1888, he continued his education at Jesuit Teachers College, and Woodstock College, and was ordained in 1903.

Francis Donnelly taught classics and rhetoric for fifty years, at Boston College (1895–1898) and (1920–1922), College of the Holy Cross (1898–1900) and (1916–1920), at Jesuit Teachers College (1906–1915) and (1922–1929), and at Fordham from 1929, also serving as rector of St. Aloysius Church (1915–1916).

He died at Poughkeepsie, in Dutchess County, New York.

Works

Major publications

• Watching an Hour: A Book for the Blessed Sacrament (1914)
• Mustard Seed: Some Pungent Paragraphs (1914)
• Chaff and Wheat: A Few Gentle Flailings (1915; sermons)
• The Heart of Revelation: Further Traits of the Sacred Heart (1917)
• Shepherd My Thoughts (1918; poetry)
• Model English (1919; 2 volumes)
• The Art of Interesting (1920)
• Greek in English (1921)
• Art Principles in Literature (1925)
• Cicero's Literary Style as a Basis for the Study of English Expression (1926)
• Literary Art and Modern Education (1927)
• Persuasive Speech (1931)
• Principles of Jesuit Education in Practice (1934)
• Grains of Incense for the Thurible of Prayer (1934)
• Our Father In Gethsemane: Thoughts for the Holy Hour (1935)
• Cicero's Milo: A Rhetorical Commentary (1935)
• Latin: The Channel of Our Civilization (1935)
• Literature, the Leading Educator (1938)
• Cicero's Manilian Law: A Rhetorical Commentary (1939)
• The Oration of Demosthenes On the Crown. A Rhetorical Commentary (1941)
• Home Fables—For Goodness' Sake! (1943)
• The Heart of the Tabernacle (1948)

Selected articles

• "History in Our Public Schools," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. 29, No. 116 (1904)
• "The Post-Communion: Its History and Its Language," Ecclesiastical Review, Vol. 30, No. 3 (1904)
• "The Spirit of Antagonism and a Modern Orator," America, Vol. 3, No. 7 (1910)
• "The Characteristics of Newman's Sermons," Ecclesiastical Review, Vol. 44, No. 3 (1911)
• "The Source of Theology and the Art of Sacred Eloquence," Ecclesiastical Review, Vol. 45, No. 1 (1911)
• "The Profit and Loss of Greek," America, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1911)
• "The Tiresome Sermon," The Ecclesiastical Review, Vol. 46, No. 3 (1912)
• "Nem Light on Newman's Preaching," The Ecclesiastical Review, Vol. 48, No. 6 (1913)
• "The Imagination of the Preacher," The Ecclesiastical Review, Vol. 49, No. 1 (1913)
• "Why Emotions in a Sermon?," The Ecclesiastical Review, Vol. 50, No. 6 (1914)
• "Euphemia," The Catholic Mind, Vol. 13, No. 8 (1915)
• "Why My Education Satisfies Me," The Catholic Mind, Vol. 13, No. 14 (1915)
• "Are You Doing It Yourself?," The Catholic Mind, Vol. 14, No. 19 (1916)
• "The Principles of Stardardization," The Catholic Educational Association Bulletin, Vol. 16, No. 2 (1919)
• "The Vitalizer of the World," America, Vol. 20, No. 16 (1919)
• "Is the Ostracism of Greek Practicable?," America, Vol. 20, No. 23 (1919)
• "Keep the Classics But Teach Them," America, Vol. 25, No. 8 (1921)
• "Individualism in Art," America, Vol. 26, No. 17 (1922)
• "How Many Homers Were There?," America, Vol. 26, No. 25 (1922)
• "Mental Tests and Liberal Education," America, Vol. 26, No. 25 (1922)
• "False Inferences from Mental Tests," America, Vol. 27, No. 4 (1922)
• "The Philosophical Basis of Mental Tests," The Catholic Educational Association Bulletin, Vol. 19, No. 4 (1923)
• "The Kinship of Art and Religion," The Catholic World, Vol. 117, No. 702 (1923)
• "Have You an American Intelligence?," America, Vol. 29, No. 13 (1923)
• "The Pedagogical Value of History," The Catholic Educational Review, Vol. 22 (1924)
• "A Plea for Difficult Studies," The Catholic School Journal, Vol. 24, No. 6 (1924)
• "The Imitation of Horatian Verse," Classical Bulletin, Vol 2, No. 3 (1925)
• "The Permanence of Critical Principles," The Catholic World, Vol. 121, No. 721 (1925)
• "Vocational Training," The Catholic Educational Association Bulletin, Vol. 22, No. 1 (1925)
• "Latin and Mass Education," The Commonweal, Vol. 4, No. 4 (1926)
• "The Mental Tickle of Humor," The Commonweal, Vol. 5, No. 22 (1927)
• "What Does Education Educate?," The Commonweal, Vol. 6, No. 8 (1927)
• "The Philosophy of Contrast," The Commonweal, Vol. 6, No. 21 (1927)
• "The Craft of the Screen," The Commonweal, Vol. 9, No. 13 (1929)
• "Where is Education?," The Commonweal, Vol. 10, No. 8 (1929)
• "The Millbrook Greek Play and Its Choral Dances," Art and Archaeology, Vol. 29, No. 2 (1930)
• "The Where and Why of Beauty's Pleasure," Thought, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1930)
• "The Secret of the Homeric Símile," Thought, Vol. 6, No. 3 (1931)
• "Woman and the Church," The Commonweal, Vol. 16, No. 8 (1932)
• "Humor: A Denatured Fallacy," Thought, Vol. 9, No. 2 (1934)
• "The Traditional Way of Teaching an Author," The Catholic School Journal, Vol. 34, No. 12 (1934)
• "On Killing Two Birds," The Commonweal, Vol. 19, No. 24 (1934)
• "Traditional Jesuit Prelection and its Formula," The Catholic School Journal, Vol. 36, No. 10 (1936)
• "The Nature of the Tragic Exemplified in Sophocles," Classical Bulletin, Vol. 14, No. 3 (1937)
• "The Curriculum Controversy," The Commonweal, Vol. 28, No. 18 (1938)
• "The Protagonist in Oedipus Rex," The Classical Weekly, Vol. 41, No. 15 (1948)
• "Tragic Irony in Oedipus Rex," The Classical Weekly, Vol. 41, No. 15 (1948)

References

• Baltazar, Armando S. (1956). The Educational Philosophy of Francis P. Donnelly. M.A. Philosophy. Berchmans College, Cebu City.

External links

• Works by Francis P. Donnelly at Internet Archive
• Works by Francis P. Donnelly at Open Library
• Works by Francis P. Donnelly at JSTOR
• Works by Francis P. Donnelly at Unz.com
• Works by Francis P. Donnelly at The Online Books Page