370 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
368 Pages
by
Routledge
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Irving Babbitt was a giant of American criticism. His writings from the 1890s to the 1930s helped advance American criticism and scholarship to international esteem. More than seventy years after his death his intellectual staying power remains undiminished. On Literature, Culture, and Religion is an ideal introduction to this seminal American thinker. Babbitt's opinions were uncompromising,... Read more
I: Outlook and Overview; What I Believe; The Terms Classic and Romantic; The Rational Study of the Classics; II: The Life of Literature; English and the Discipline of Ideas; Form and Expression; Romantic Love; Matthew Arnold; Joubert; III: Ideas and the World; Democracy and Standards; Madame De StaëL; Lights and Shades of Spanish Character; Buddha and the Occident; Reference Notes
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Irving Babbitt
