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Paul Elmer More
1864–1937
A leading voice in American literary criticism, this scholar and essayist helped shape the New Humanist movement and wrote with unusual range on literature, philosophy, and religion. His work blends classical learning with a strong moral seriousness that kept readers arguing with him long after his own time.
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 in St. Louis and then at Harvard. Early in his career he taught Sanskrit at Harvard and Bryn Mawr before moving into literary journalism, where he became an editor at The Independent, the New York Evening Post, and The Nation.
More became one of the best-known American critics of the early twentieth century and, alongside Irving Babbitt, a major figure in New Humanism. He is especially remembered for the multi-volume Shelburne Essays and for writing on Greek thought, literature, and Christian belief with a deeply classical outlook.
Later in life he continued to write and lecture, earning a reputation as a conservative critic who cared intensely about moral and intellectual standards in culture. He died in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1937.