Desiderata max ehrmann biography
Desiderata max ehrmann biography
Max Ehrmann Biography.
Desiderata
1920s prose poem by Max Ehrman
This article is about the poem. For the parody, see Deteriorata. For other uses, see Desiderata (disambiguation).
"Desiderata"(Latin: "things desired") is a 1927 prose poem by the American writer Max Ehrmann.
The text was widely distributed in poster form in the 1960s and 1970s.
Desiderata max ehrmann poem
History
Max Ehrmann of Terre Haute, Indiana started writing the work in 1921,[citation needed] but he did not assign it a title. He registered for his U.S. copyright in 1927 using the poem's first phrase as its title.
The April 5, 1933 issue of Michigan Tradesman magazine published the full, original text on its cover, crediting Ehrmann as its author. In 1933, he distributed the poem in the form of a Christmas card,[1] now officially titled "Desiderata."[2]
Psychiatrist Merrill Moore distributed more than 1,000 unattributed copies to his patients and soldiers during World War II.[1] After Ehrmann died in 1945,