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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

“I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.”

Men World Believe Character I Believe Born Ideals Perfection Every Man

Book:Heart of Man

Source: Heart of Man

“The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.”

Men School Education Compulsory Compulsory Education

Book:Heart of Man

Source: Heart of Man

“Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as the saying is; but the generations are bound together by the golden links of the great tradition of civilization.”

Men Together Understanding Generations Depends Civilization Elements Tradition Bounds Golden Links Vitality Renaissance

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

Source: Collected Essays: 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

“The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal and grammatical speech which constitutes the various tongues of the Earth, and conceals the identity of image and logic in the minds of all men.”

Men World Mind Earth Literature Language Identity Speech Logic Notion Various Tongue Vocal

Book:The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses

Source: The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses

“What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!”

Thinking Men World Faces Stars Space Saws Beats Infinite Silent West Host New World Retreat

Author:George Edward Woodberry

“What holy cities are to nomadic tribes — a symbol of race and a bond of union — great books are to the wandering souls of men: they are the Meccas of the mind.”

Men Mind Book Soul Race Cities Holy Unions Wander Symbols Tribes Great Book Mecca Nomadic

Book:The Inspiration of Poetry

Source: The Inspiration of Poetry

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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