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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

“A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.”

Real Nations Poet Deeds Possession Stranger Aliens Titles Owners Pens Strokes

Book:The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses

Source: The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses

“The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.”

Emotion Creative Fire Conditions Poet Crave Baptized Creative Power

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

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

“Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the power, the purity and height of his utterance may not seldom be the greater because experience here uses the voices of desire.”

May Use Desire Voice Imagination Greater Poet Height Purity Utterance Desire To Live

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

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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