| Wilbur Marshall Urban |
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PHILOSOPHY His ''Language and Reality'', besides its exposition of Cassirer's ideas, has been described as the work “that first introduced Husserl ’s phenomenology to the English speaking world” {Link without Title} . It began with the words “Language is the last and deepest problem for the philosophic mind.” He was Stone Professor of Philosophy at , succeeded in 1941 by Cassirer {Link without Title} . He was a critic of . IN LITERARY CRITICISM Cleanth Brooks , in ''The Well Wrought Urn'' (1947)In Chapter 11 and Appendix 2., gave extended attention to Urban's views on language and symbolism, as applied to poetry. Suzanne Langer , however, starting from a similar base in Cassirer's thought, had criticized what Urban had to say in detail on poetry, in ''Philosophy in a New Key'' (1942)p. 231, 261.. These matters are discussed in Cleanth Brooks and William K. Wimsatt , ''Literary Criticism: A Short History'' (1957)pp.701-2.. WORKS
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