The Masters of Modern French Criticism

by Irving Babbitt

Professor Babbitt's exclusive focus is on nineteenth century French critics whom he terms the most vital and significant personalities of their time. He argues that, since they were at the intellectual center of their era, to be familiar with them is to know the main movement of intellectual thought through the period.

427 pages, Hardcover

First published March 31, 1977

About the author

New humanism movement of American scholar Irving Babbitt sought to revive interest in classical virtues in literary criticism.

Irving Babbitt, a noted academic, in his role from 1910 founded a known, significant influence on discussion and conservative thought in the period. He in the cultural tradition of Matthew Arnold consistently opposed romanticism, as the writings of Jean Jacques Rousseau represented. Politically, he without serious distortion followed Aristotle and Edmund Burke. He advocated and offered an ecumenical defense of religion. He implied a broad knowledge of various moral and religious traditions.

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