Paul Elmer More (December 12, 1864 – March 9, 1937) was an American journalist, critic, essayist and Christian apologist. Events 627 - Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II 's Persian Year 1864 ( MDCCCLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Events 590 - Bahram Chobin is crowned as king Barham VI of Persia. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends An essay is usually a short piece of writing It is often written from an author's personal point of view. A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth
He was educated at Washington University in St. Louis and Harvard University. More taught Sanskrit at Harvard (1894-1895) and Bryn Mawr (1895-1897). Sanskrit (sa संस्कृता वाक् saṃskṛtā vāk, for short sa संस्कृतम् saṃskṛtam) is a historical Bryn Mawr College ( brin-mar is a highly selective women's liberal arts college located in Bryn Mawr, a community in Lower Merion
After his short career as an academic, he worked as a journalist on The Independent, the New York Evening Post and The Nation. The New York Post is the 13th-oldest Newspaper published in the United States and generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continually This article is about the US Publication. For other newspapers magazines and alternate uses by the same name see The Nation (disambiguation. He started on his Shelburne Essays in 1904; they were to run to 11 published volumes, drawing on his periodical writing, and were followed later by the New Shelburne Essays, in three volumes from 1928.
He wrote several books after his retirement from journalism, including, Platonism (1917); The Religion of Plato (1921); Hellenistic Philosophies (1923); and his biography and last published work, Pages from an Oxford Diary (1937). His Greek Tradition, 5 vols. (1924-31), is generally thought to be his best work.
During the last 10 years of his life, More wrote several books of Christian apologetics, including The Christ of the New Testament, The Catholic Faith and Christ the Word. Christian apologetics is a field of Christian theology that aims to present a rational basis for the Christian faith, defend the faith against objections
He collaborated with Irving Babbitt from before 1900 in the project later labelled New Humanism. Irving Babbitt ( August 2, 1865 &ndash July 15, 1933) was an American academic and literary critic, noted for his founding This page is concerned with the movement called New Humanism in Literary criticism.
More lived in Princeton, New Jersey. See also Princeton Township New Jersey, Borough of Princeton New Jersey Princeton Borough New Jersey Princeton Township New Jersey this He died March 9, 1937, at the age of 73.
References
- Paul Elmer More (1960) Arthur Hazard Dakin
- Paul Elmer More (1967) Francis X. Duggan
External links
- The Writings of Paul Elmer More
- Paul Elmer More: America's Reactionary.(Conservative Minds Revisited)(literary critic, educator and philosopher)(was associated with the New Humanism movement)
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