Irving Babbitt (1865-1933) was a significant American scholar and critic associated with New Humanism, advocating for the ethical dimension of art and opposing its deification.
Irving Babbitt (1865-1933) was an American scholar and critic, a key figure in New Humanism, emphasizing art's ethical component and rejecting veneration of art or science.
| Front | Irving Babbitt |
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| Back | 1865-1933 American scholar and critic with Paul Elmer More he was a leading figure among the New Humanist his criticism emphasized the ethical component of art, rejecting more romantic ideals which in his view tended too much to establish art or science as objects of veneration influenced t. s., Eliot |
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