"You may name a bronze statue Liberty, or a painted figure in a city hall Commerce, or a marble form in a temple Athene or Venus; but what is really there is only a representation of a single woman."
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Two Phases of Criticism, Historical and Aesthetic: Lectures Delivered on the Larwill Foundation of Kenyon College, May Seventh and Eighth, 1913 (Merrymount Press, 1914), p. 20
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George Edward Woodberry
George Edward Woodberry (May 12, 1855 – January 2, 1930) was an American literary critic and poet.
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