Babbitt, Irving
Babbitt, Irving( 1865–1933),born in Ohio, graduated from Harvard (1889), and after study abroad became a professor of Romance languages at Williams (1893–94) and of French at Harvard (1894–1933). He was an outstanding scholar and as a leader of the New Humanism was a trenchant critic of romanticism and its arch-apostle, Rousseau. Among the books in which he set forth his humanist doctrines are Literature and the American College (1908), a plea for the humanities; The New Laokoön (1910), on the romantic confusion in the arts; Rousseau and Romanticism (1919); Democracy and Leadership (1924), a philosophy of modern civilization; and On Being Creative (1932), a discussion of classic theories of imitation and romantic concepts of spontaneity. Spanish Character (1940), a posthumous collection of essays, contains a bibliography and index to his works.
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