G(eorge) E(dward) Woodberry

Literary critic, born in Beverly, Massachusetts, USA. An inspiring teacher at Columbia University (1891–1904) and elsewhere, he wrote essays, notably Heart of Man (1899), and biographies of Poe, Hawthorne, and Emerson, but published little in his last, reclusive years.

He wrote a number of books:

A History of Wood engraving (1883) Studies in Letters and Life (1890) Heart of Man (1899) Wild Eden (1900) Makers of Literature (1900) Nathaniel Hawthorne (1902) America in Literature (1903) Swinburne (1905) The Torch: Eight Lectures on Race Power in Literature (1905) Emerson (1907) The Appreciation of Literature (1907) Great Writers (1907) Life of Poe (two volumes, 1909) The Inspiration of Poetry (1910) Wendell Phillips (1912) A Day at Castrogiovanni (1912) North Africa and the Desert (1914) Two Phases of Criticism (1914)

Other publications:

Life of Edgar Allan Poe in the "American Men of Letters" series (1885) The North Shore Watch, and Other Poems (1890) With Edmund Clarence Stedman, Works of Edgar Allan Poe (ten volumes, 1895) Collected Poems (1903) The Kingdom of All Souls, poems, (1912) The Flight and Other Poems (1914)

He edited The complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1892); The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, with E. He wrote compositions in the "National Studies in American Letters," and Columbia University Studies in Comparative Literature, (nine volumes).

"The sense that someone else cares always helps, because it is the sense of love"