The self-glorification and self-concertedness of the learned man is now everywhere in full bloom and in its high springtime— which does not mean that in this case self-praise smells sweet.—Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Scholar, author, and teacher,JACQUES BARZUN was born and schooled in France, came to this country in 1919, was naturalized in 1933, and has been teaching history at Columbia University for more than two decades. A writer since the age of seventeen, he has published a dozen volumes of scholarship and social comment, of which Teacher in America was the most provocative and widely read. His new book. God’s Country and Mine, will appear under the Atlantic—Little, Brown imprint in March: the author terms it “a declaration of love spiced with a few harsh words; and from it, as an appetizer, we have selected the paper which follows.
Scholar, author, and teacher, JACQUES BARZUN was born and schooled in France, came to this country in 1919, was naturalized in 1933, and has been teaching history at Columbia University for more than two decades. A writer for the periodical press since the age of seventeen, he has published a dozen volumes of scholarship and social comment. His latest work, to appear in early spring, is God’s Country and Mine, which he calls “a declaration of love spiced with a few harsh words.”
"Byron's thoughts, works, and character as a whole cannot be adequately summed up in the figure of a headlong lover in an open collar, whose fits of melancholy are a pose."
Born and schooled in France, JACQUES came to this country in 1919. He was naturalized in 1933 and is now Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the author of several books, among them Teacher in America and the two-volume work Berlioz and the Romantic Century. His critical essays are well known to Atlantic readers, and he is a member of the editorial board of the Magazine of Art, the American Scholar, and the Columbia University Press.
"Mr. Mencken, as we know, defends the American vernacular and at the same time is ever ready to laugh at the follies of its makers."