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Irving Babbitt (1865–1933)

Author of Democracy and Leadership

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Works by Irving Babbitt

Democracy and Leadership (1924) 107 copies

Rousseau and Romanticism (1919) 93 copies

Literature and the American College: Essays in Defense of the Humanities (1972) 33 copies

The masters of modern French criticism (1912) 12 copies

The new Laokoon; an essay on the confusion of the arts (1910) 7 copies

Character and Culture: Essays on East and West (Library of Conservative Thought) (1995) 4 copies

Irving Babbitt, representative writings (1981) 2 copies

On being creative,: And other essays 1 copy

French literature 1 copy

American Critical Essays, XIX-XX Century (The World's Classics) — Contributor — 1 copy

Associated Works

The Dhammapada (0300) — Translator, some editions — 2,836 copies

Phaedra (1677) — Editor, some editions — 1,980 copies

Critical Theory Since Plato (1971) — Contributor, some editions — 401 copies

The Portable Conservative Reader (1982) — Contributor — 211 copies

Edmund Burke: Appraisals and Applications (1990) — Contributor — 7 copies

Voltaire's Zadig and Other Stories (Heath's Modern Language Series) (1905) — Editor — 5 copies

Humanism and America; essays on the outlook of modern civilisation (1984) — Contributor — 4 copies

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Birthdate: 1865-08-02
Date of death: 1933-07-15
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Dayton, Ohio, USA
Place of death: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Places of residence: Madisonville, Ohio, USA
Paris, France
Montana, USA
Wyoming, USA
Education: Harvard College (AB, MA)
Écoles des Hautes-Études, Sorbonne, Paris, France
Occupations: academic
literary critic
Relationships: Eliot, T. S. (student)
Howe, George F. (son-in-law)
Organizations: Institute of France
College of Montana
Harvard College
Williams College
Awards and honors: Harvard University (Irving Babbitt Chair of Comparative Literature)
Bowdoin College (honorary degree)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Fellow)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Fellow)

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Democracy and Leadership

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Lewis E. Gates Contributor

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William Dean Howells Contributor

Ralph Waldo Emerson Contributor

Walt Whitman Contributor

Russell Kirk Foreword, Introduction

Claes G. Ryn Introduction

Alvin Lustig Cover designer

Joseph Baldacchino Foreword

Milton Hindus Introduction

George Andrew Panichas Editor

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Works: 10
Also by: 7
Members: 261
Popularity: #88,099
Rating: 4.0

ISBNs: 27
Languages: 3
Favorited: 1

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