“To find out what we presently are and where we are going, we must know what we have been and what others have done; and this, because the humanities are at once the creation and the interpreters of the past, is the great purpose of humanistic scholarship.”
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Howard Mumford Jones
Howard Mumford Jones was an American writer born on April 16, 1892, and died on May 11, 1980. His works spanned various genres including literary criticism, poetry, and fiction, and had a profound impact on 20th-century literature. more
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