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...Frances Theresa Russell Copyright © 1933 by Duke University Press 1933 THE ROMANTICISM OF IRVING BABBITT FRANCES THERESA RUSSELL HE HARVARD Humanist s newest book, On Being X Creative, has nothing new in it, being a reprint of essays collected from various sources. Even their repetitions...

...S. Earl Dubbel Copyright © 1936 by Duke University Press 1936 HE SEARCHED THE PAST S. EARL DUBBEL WHAT IN A WORD was the most significant lesson which Irving Babbitt taught our generation ? I should say the answer is found in the felicitous dedication to th memory of Irving Babbitt made...

... remains, best captured in The Sun Also Rises. Almost as recently another literary man nearly thirty years dead achieved formal apotheosis as an American institution, when the first Irving Babbitt Professor of Literature was inaugurated at Harvard University. If Hemingway was the protagonist par excel­...

...Edwin Mims Copyright © 1914 by Duke University Press 1914 The Masters of Modern French Criticism* Edwin Mims Professor of English in Vanderbilt University Professor Babbitt s volume on modern French criticism has an interest for a much wider circle of readers than special students...

... leaving us 444 The South Atlantic Quarterly without any clear sense of the greater issues involved in the contro­ versy, of their magnitude, or of their implications. For the issues are not necessarily what the New Humanists think they are. Mr. Irving Babbitt is better at announcing that we are ill than...

... Copyright © 1910 by Duke University Press 1910 BOOK REVIEWS The New Laokoon. An Essay On The Confusion Of The Arts. By Irving Babbitt. Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company 1910, xi., 259 pp. In his earlier book entitled Literature and the American Col­ lege, Mr. Babbitt showed...

... restoration to the bosom of the church and the community of the faithful. One of the most interesting passages in A Romantic View of Poetry is almost a digression on Harvard and the teaching of Kittredge, Grand- Books 337 gent, and Babbitt, under all of whom the author studied. Babbitt, after receiving some...

.... ESSAYS BY BABBITT On Being Creative and Other Essays. By Irving Babbitt. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932. Pp. xliv, 266. Professor Babbitt s volume On Being Creative is an oddly assorted group of lectures and essays, several of which have previously seen print in the magazines. While...

...-getter and the now ill-reputed Babbitt. Old Ben Franklin was the original Yankee businessman, and his statesmanship, his philanthropy, was lost sight of in his example of thrift and gospel of hard work. Self-improve­ ment became a mania, and advocates of personality development sprung up like the ancient...

... functional quo­ tients. A genuine intellectual, truly functioning as such, does not, for instance, say of Irving Babbitt s On Being Creative: Coming back to Dr. Babbitt s verbal gymnastics after almost two years of rest from them, one is impressed by their total irrelevance to contemporary life. He does...

..., circumscribed within well-defined limits of time and place, confined to the conditions of a single nation at a certain moment of its growth. E. M. Literature and the American College. By Irving Babbitt. Bos­ ton and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1908, ix., 263 pp. Now and then out of a mass of books...

... precipi­ Cartoonists Front 95 tated the strike. The layoff of twenty-four cartoonists, including top animator Art Babbitt and other members of the SCG, was intended as a purge of SCG activists and was accompanied by rumors of a lock­ out. Despite Sorrell s efforts to discourage a strike because the SCG...

.... No sir, I am a scholar. He will mean just that, for the split between the scholar and the writer in America, as Archibald MacLeish long ago pointed out, is almost axiomatic. This in spite of such older names as William Brownell, Joel Spingarn, Stuart Sherman, Lane Cooper, Paul Elmer More, Irving Babbitt...

... ever since its foundation by the Fathers. In this remark, George F. Babbitt captured a concern current among Atlanta businessmen between 1916 and 1935. Throughout the twenty-year period The City Builder published attempts by local boosters and others to define the special spirit of Atlanta, the city s...

...John Abbot Clark Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 REMEMBERING CLASSICISM John Abbot Clark IN THE opening chapter of Rousseau and Romanticism, Irving Babbitt observes that the words classic and romantic, we are often told, cannot be defined at all, and even if they could...

... at least passing refuge in Lionel Trilling s admonition, simply, not to be taken in by the destructive element in modern literature. But he goes further to seek for what he calls a humanist position. It is one that he is careful to try to keep separate from the old New Human­ ism of Babbitt and More...

... God. Babbitt (1922) ridiculed the American business man so successfully that Babbitt and Babbittry were add­ ed to the dictionary. The hard-hitting satire got under the skins of many Rotarians and boosters. Among the items in Lewis s indictment were questionable business ethics, a moronic...

..., and unrefined. I know I get my share of horrified looks when Satisfaction comes blasting out of my classroom. Composer Milton Babbitt once lamented that his students studied serious music all day, then went home and listened to the same music the janitors liked. 1 As Allan Bloom put it, [Rock music] ruins...

... allowed the truth to stand in the way of his fun. With Colby, the truth came first, the fun deriving from it. Placed alongside such solid, enduring American critics as Paul Elmer More and Irving Babbitt, Colby appears slightly frivolous and a trifle overconcerned with purely literary values. But Colby s...

... to be interested in all things human. Hence would arise the divergence among humanists, as that between Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More, which Mr. Elliott discusses, and that between Mr. Elliott and Mr. T. S. Eliot. A humanist to be humane cannot afford to be unfriendly to science or to nature or to religion...