The largely forgotten Edwin Markham (1852-1940) was a popular American literary figure during the first half of the twentieth century whose works championed progressive social beliefs and preached ...

A protest that will shake the ruler’s knee. Let there be protest till the happy hour When Justice shall unclothe her arm of power.” Thus does Edwin Markham, author of “The Man With the Hoe” speak out, ...

My heart keeps going back to it thru all the earthly ills.” “The Heart’s Return,” by Edwin Markham “California is well-neigh as familiar to me as my garden paths,” wrote poet Edwin Markham in 1914 in ...

The death last night of Edwin Markham, at the age of 87, recalled today that one of the famous poet’s strongest poems was an outcry against anti-Jewish persecution by the Nazi Government. Written in ...