Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Irving Howe (American Critic)

Irving Howe (1920–1993) was an American literary and social critic and educator. He was best known for his probing into the social and political viewpoint in literary criticism.

Born the son of Ukrainian immigrants in New York City, Howe grew up speaking Yiddish and learned English as a second language on the streets and in school. He graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1940. He was a professor of English at several universities, including Brandeis (1953–61,) Stanford (1961–63,) and the City University of New York (1963–86.)

Howe came to prominence in the 1950s as a social and literary critic and a member of the anti-Communist left. He edited George Gissing, Edith Wharton, Leon Trotsky, and George Orwell and, from 1953, was editor of the periodical Dissent, which he co-founded. His best-known book is World of Our Fathers (1976,) a classic study of Eastern European Jewish immigrants in the U.S.

Howe wrote critical works on Sherwood Anderson (1951,) William Faulkner (1952,) and Thomas Hardy (1967.) He also produced such critical works as Politics and the Novel (1957,) edited anthologies of Yiddish literature, and wrote an autobiography, Margin of Hope (1982.)

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Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
Irving Howe
Topics: Imagination

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