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Genius is that in which the soul of a race bums at its brightest, revealing and preserving its vision; works of art are great and significant in proportion to the clarity and fulness with which they incarnate this vision.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Art Brightest Bums Clarity Genius Great Preserving Proportion Race Revealing Significant Soul Vision Which Works

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My first recollection of hearing Wendell Phillips is from my college days, though of course he was always one of my heroes, and I may have heard him before, for we were an anti-slavery family.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Always Before College Course Days Family First He Heard Hearing Heroes Him May Recollection Though Were

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Who of English speech, bred to the traditions of his race, does not recognize Hamlet in his 'inky cloak' at a glance? Not to know him would argue one's self untaught in the chief glories of his language.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Argue Bred Chief Cloak Does English Glance Hamlet Him His Know Language Race Recognize Self Speech Traditions Who Would

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Shakespeare is, essentially, the emanation of the Renaissance. The overflow of his fame on the Continent in later years was but the sequel of the flood of the Renaissance in Western Europe. He was the child of that great movement, and marks its height as it penetrated the North with civilization.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Child Civilization Continent Essentially Europe Fame Flood Great He Height His Later Marks Movement North Overflow Renaissance Sequel Shakespeare Western Western Europe Years

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Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as the saying is; but the generations are bound together by the golden links of the great tradition of civilization.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Bound Civilization Depends Each Each Man Education Elements Generation Generations Golden Great His Largely Links Live Man Must Our Own Renaissance Saying Shakespeare Together Tradition Understanding Vitality

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A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Age Civilization Country He His Justly Limits Though Understood Universal Within Writer

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Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Anything Been English Eulogy Except Fame His Itself More More Than Anything Mortal Poetry Praised Shakespeare Than Thought

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A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Bonds Distinguishes Expression Genius His Independent Language Marvellous Often Over Phrases Power Seems Shakespeare

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A nation's poets are its true owners; and by the stroke of the pen they convey the title-deeds of its real possessions to strangers and aliens.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Alien Convey Nation Owners Pen Poets Possessions Real Strangers Stroke True

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If the aristocracy of the whole white race is so to melt in a world of the colored races of the Earth, I for one should only rejoice in such a divine triumph of the sacrificial idea in history; for it would mean the humanization of mankind.

~George Edward Woodberry

Topics: Aristocracy Colored Divine Earth History Idea Mankind Mean Melt Only Race Races Rejoice Should Triumph White Whole World Would

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: Unknown

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