This book is highly recommended for readers seeking a deeper understanding of the philosophical underpinnings of the Romantic movement and its enduring influence on Western thought.

Irving Babbitt was a leader of the intellectual movement called American Humanism, or the New Humanism, and a distinguished professor of French literature at Harvard.

Humanistic Letters helps remedy this problem, by providing for the first time the extant correspondence of Babbitt and More, which gets to the heart of their intellectual project.

Panichas raises again controversial issues that were not really resolved in Babbitt's time. The essay will challenge those long familiar with Babbitt and New Humanism and those newly introduced thereto.

This volume does not criticize criticism, but criticizes critics.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.