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Spingarn

[spin-gahrn]
noun
  1. Joel Elias,1875–1939, U.S. literary critic, publisher, and editor.
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Historical Examples of spingarn

  • Spingarn was mistaken when he said that we have done with all moral judgment of literature.

    The Literature of Ecstasy

    Albert Mordell

  • Spingarn, Cunliffe, and Fischer are valuable for their special fields.

    Tragedy

    Ashley H. Thorndike

  • For his general achievement in music he was, in 1917, awarded the Spingarn Medal.

  • These are only a few examples typical of the general tendency which Spingarn has so thoroughly studied.

  • The same definition, derived as Spingarn has shown from the same sources, was formulated by Varchi.