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To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.

George Edward Woodberry

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George Edward Woodberry

American poet and literary critic

May 12th, 1855 - January 2nd, 1930

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