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Joel Elias Spingarn

Joel Elias Spingarn

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Joel Elias Spingarn , 1875–1939, American educator and literary critic, b. New York City, grad. Columbia (B.A., 1895; Ph.D., 1899). He was professor (1899–1911) of comparative literature at Columbia, and a founder (1919) of the publishing firm of Harcourt, Brace and Company. His literary work includes A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance (1899), Creative Criticism and Other Essays (1931), and several books of poems. A prominent officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1913 until his death, he established (1913) the Spingarn medal, awarded annually for outstanding achievement by an African American.

Bibliography: See studies by M. van Deusen (1971) and B. J. Spingarn (1972).

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Spingarn, J[oel] E[lias] (1875–1939),professor of comparative literature at Columbia (1899–1911) and literary critic, whose works include A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance (1899), The New Criticism (1911), Creative Criticism (1917), and volumes of verse including The New Hesperides (1911) and Poems (1924). A Spingarn Enchiridion (1929) is his reply to P.E. More's contention that he taught that criticism is “only impression.” He also edited many works, and in 1914 established the award of the Spingarn Medal, granted annually to an outstanding black.
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