Irving Babbitt

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essayist human humanist literary critic university teacher

Irving Babbitt was an American literary critic and humanist whose advocacy of classical restraint, moral realism, and the "New Humanism" movement deeply shaped 20th-century conservative thought.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	essayist → human → humanist → literary critic → university teacher →
advocatedFor	classical restraint → ethical realism → moral discipline →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
criticized	romanticism → sentimentalism →
dateOfBirth	1865-08-02 →
dateOfDeath	1933-07-15 →
educatedAt	Harvard University →
employer	Harvard University →
familyName	Babbitt →
fieldOfWork	classical studies → comparative literature → literary criticism →
genre	literary criticism → political philosophy →
givenName	Irving →
influenced	American conservatism → Russell Kirk → T. S. Eliot →
influencedBy	Buddhism → Jean-Jacques Rousseau → Stoicism → classical literature →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
movement	New Humanism → conservatism → humanism →
notableIdea	New Humanism → critique of romantic naturalism → inner check →
notableWork	Democracy and Leadership → Literature and the American College → On Being Creative → Rousseau and Romanticism → The New Laokoon →
occupation	literary critic → professor → writer →
philosophicalSchool	classical humanism → moral realism →
placeOfBirth	Dayton, Ohio →
placeOfDeath	Cambridge, Massachusetts →
religion	Unitarianism →
sexOrGender	male →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Russell Kirk → The Conservative Mind →	influencedBy