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Irving Babbitt American Scholar Critic Paul Elmer Leading

Front Irving Babbitt
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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