Frame 29x35; Price $219Desiderata is a well known and widely circulated prose poem written by Max Ehrmann. It is inarguably his best-known work. Written in 1927, it represents a philosophy he had thought out over a lifetime.
During his early adult years he practiced law and helped run various family businesses. At the age of forty-one he retired to devote his life to writing. Ehrmann was concerned with the social problems of his day and the spiritual meaning of life. Toward the end of his life Ehrmann told an interviewer: “I contracted a disease which I have never shaken off. The disease was idealism. Because of it I did the thing in life I wanted to do—writing.”
Reproduced in a variety of books as well as on countless posters, plaques, greeting cards, and even tee-shirts, the message of Desiderata remains timeless and guarantees for Ehrmann a lasting place in the archives of popular literature.
Indiana Media Journal
John C. Dahlgren
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