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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

“The growth of art seems to be in cycles, and often its vigorous lifetime is restricted to a century or two. The periods of distinctive drama, Greek, English, Spanish, fall within such a limit; the schools of painting and sculpture likewise; and, in poetry, the Victorian age or the school of Pope will serve as examples.”

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

“We foresee no limit to scientific advancement in the future, and in scientific truth there is nothing dead; science is always a living and growing body of knowledge; but art on the contrary has many times run its course to an end, and exhausted its vital power.”

Art Ends Body Running Courses Growing Limits Contrary Exhausted Advancement Scientific Truth Scientific Advancement

Author:George Edward Woodberry

“A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.”

Country Age Civilization Limits Understood Universal

Book:Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses

Source: Collected Essays: The torch and other lectures and addresses

About the Author

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

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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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