Humanistic letters: the Irving Babbitt-Paul Elmer More correspondence

Abstract

"Irving Babbitt and Paul Elmer More were the leading lights of the New Humanism, a consequential movement of literary and social criticism in America. Through their writings on literary, educational, cultural, religious, and political topics, they influenced countless other thinkers, such as T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, Russell Kirk, and George Will. By providing for the first time the extant correspondence of Babbitt and More, this collection gets to the heart of their intellectual project, revealing from an insider's perspective the true goals of New Humanism"--