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On Literature, Culture, and Religion - Irving Babbitt (Hardcover)
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On Literature, Culture, and Religion - Irving Babbitt (Hardcover)
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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,
and his vocal allies and opponents included almost every name in
American literature and scholarship: T. S. Eliot, Edmund Wilson,
Paul Elmer More, H. L. Mencken, and Sinclair Lewis. A founder of
New Humanism, Babbitt was best known for his indictment of
Romanticism and his insistence that the modern age had gone wrong.
Babbitt argued for a renewal of humanistic values and
standards--which he found best articulated in classical Greece,
Hinduism, and Buddhism. The selections cover topics central to
Babbitt: criticism, Romanti-cism, classical literature, French
literature, education, democracy, and Buddhism. They typify
Babbitt's method: recondite allusion, penetrating insight and
analysis, impeccable scholarship, and unrelenting pursuit of the
furthest ramification and the profoundest implication. The original
annotation is retained. Brief introductions to the essays place
them in the Babbitt canon. A major introductory essay by George A.
Panichas surveys Babbitt's career and critical reception and
summarizes the concepts that inform Babbitt's writing. Panichas
raises again controversial issues that were not really resolved in
Babbitt's time. The essay will challenge those long familiar with
Babbitt and New Humanism and those newly introduced thereto.
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