Further Reading
- Babcock, Charles L., "The Classics and the New Humanism," The Endless Fountain: Essays on Classical Humanism, edited by Mark Morford, Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1972, pp. 3-27. (Applies the principles of the New Humanists to a discussion of literature education and criticism in the 1970s.)
- Blackmur, R. P., "Humanism and Symbolic Imagination: Notes on Re-reading Irving Babbitt," Southern Review (autumn 1941): 309-25. (Discusses Babbitt's theory of humanism, concluding that the role of the intellect is “in coping with disorder.”)
- Fincher, John L., "The Writ of Literature: The Chinese Disciples of Western Humanism, ca. 1919-1933," Society and the Writer: Essays on Literature in Modern Asia, edited by Wang Gungwu, M. Guerrero, and D. Marr, Canberra: Research School of Pacific Studies/The Australian National University, 1981, pp. 139-53. (Considers the influence of the New Humanism on Chinese writers. This essay was originally delivered as a lecture in 1978.)
- Tanner, Stephen L., Paul Elmer More: Literary Criticism as the History of Ideas, Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, 1987, 267 p. (Traces More's theory of criticism and application of his “first principles” to literature from the Renaissance to the twentieth century.)
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