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Literary critic

George Edward Woodberry was an American literary critic known for his research on Romantic literature. His works have had a profound impact on subsequent literary criticism.

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Famous George Edward Woodberry Quotes

“Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.”

Ideas Born Results Intellectual Vitality Agitation Intellectual Life

Author:George Edward Woodberry

“You must find the ideas that have some promise in them... It is not enough to just have ideas.”

Ideas Enough Promise

Author:George Edward Woodberry

“Art does not, like science, set forth a permanent order of nature, the enduring skeleton of law. Two factors primarily determine its works: one is the idea in the mind of the artist, the other is his power of expression; and both these factors are extremely variable.”

Mind Doe Art Two Ideas Law Artist Order Expression Endure Determine Factors Permanent Variables Skeletons

Book:Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913

Source: Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913

“If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one should only rejoice in such a divine triumph of the sacrificial idea in history; for it would mean the humanization of mankind.”

Ifs World Should Mean Ideas Whole Earth White Race Mankind Divine Triumph Rejoice Aristocracy White Race

Book:The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses

Source: The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses

“The Greeks, those originators of the intellectual life, fixed for us the idea of the poet. He was a divine man; more sacred than the priest, who was at best an intermediary between men and the gods, but in the poet the god was present and spoke.”

Men Ideas Divine Poet Intellectual Sacred Greek Fixed Spokes Priests Origin Of Life Intellectual Life

Book:The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses

Source: The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses

About the Author

Born: May 12, 1855
Died: January 2, 1930
Known for: Literary critic
Quotes: 50

Books & Sources

Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addressesRelated source material

The Torch, and Other Lectures and AddressesRelated source material

Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913Related source material

Selected letters of George Edward WoodberryRelated source material

Shakespeare: An AddressRelated source material

Heart of ManRelated source material

The Inspiration of PoetryRelated source material

The North Shore Watch and Other PoemsRelated source material

Wendell Phillips: The Faith of an AmericanRelated source material

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