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Paul Elmer More
1864–1937
A leading voice in America’s New Humanist movement, this critic and essayist brought classical learning and moral seriousness to everything he wrote. His work ranges from literary criticism to religious reflection, making him an interesting guide to the intellectual debates of the early 20th century.
4 Audiobooks
The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance
by Paul Elmer More, Corra Harris
Benjamin Franklin
by Paul Elmer More
Christianity and Problems of To-day: Lectures Delivered Before Lake Forest College on the Foundation of the Late William Bross
by John H. (John Huston) Finley, Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, Charles Foster Kent, Paul Elmer More, Robert Bruce Taylor
Shelburne Essays, Third Series
by Paul Elmer More
About the author
Born in St. Louis in 1864, Paul Elmer More studied at Washington University and later at Harvard, where he also taught Sanskrit for a time. He went on to build a career as a scholar, editor, journalist, and literary critic, earning a reputation for wide learning and a strong independent mind.
More became one of the best-known figures associated with New Humanism, a movement that pushed back against sentimental and purely materialist trends in modern culture. His long-running series Shelburne Essays helped establish him as an important American man of letters, and he later wrote extensively on Greek thought, ethics, and Christianity.
In his later years, More lived in Princeton, New Jersey, and continued writing on religion and philosophy until his death in 1937. Readers often return to him for the same reason his contemporaries did: he combined sharp criticism with a serious search for what makes a good life.