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Babbitt, Irving 1865-1933
US critic and writer

Born in Dayton, Ohio, he became Professor of French at Harvard (1894-1933). Primarily a moralist and teacher, he was a leader of the 'new selective humanism' which flourished in the USA in the 1920s. His books include Literature and the American College (1908), The New Laokoön (1910), Rousseau and Romanticism (1919), and On Being Creative (1932).

Bibliography: S C Brennan, Irving Babbitt (1987)