On Literature, Culture, and Religion

by Irving Babbitt

"Irving Babbitt was a giant of American criticism. His writings from the 1890s to the 1930s helped advance American criticism and scholarship to international esteem. More than seventy years after his death his intellectual staying power remains undiminished. On Literature, Culture, and Religion is an ideal introduction to this seminal American thinker. Babbitt's opinions were uncompromising, and his vocal allies and opponents included almost every name in American literature and scholarship: T.S. Eliot, Edmund Wilson, Paul Elmer More, H.L. Mencken, and Sinclair Lewis. A founder of New...