biography
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| (1864–1937)
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| biography:
| Critic and philosopher, born in St Louis, Missouri, USA. He studied at Washington University (St Louis), and at Harvard. With Irving Babbitt he led the New Humanism movement, promoting a neo-Christian philosophy which, he claimed, continued the Platonic tradition, and his narrow and pedantic views provoked strong reactions from H L Mencken and many others. His principal essays on literature and philosophy were collected in The Greek Tradition (4 vols, 1917–27) and Shelburne Essays (11 vols, 1904–21). |
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