Word: spingarn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arts who refuses to have anything to do with the apostles of "pep and progress". The dinner incident past, we have the author's own point of view. Firmly yet gently, he would lead the talent of America from the footsteps of W. L. George, Theodore Dresier and Mr. Spingarn. Instead he would have them turn to Emerson and Whitman and Thoreau. Produce literature which "socializes the spiritual wealth of the country"! Your true artist is but the sounding board for this vast and half-articulate land" which has for its genius a great "moral idealism" gained from the Puritans...
...Spingarn: Creative Criticism...