Who is George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathan (February 14, 1882 – April 8, 1958) was an American drama critic and magazine editor. He worked closely with H. L. Mencken, bringing the literary magazine The Smart Set to prominence as an editor, and co-founding and editing The American Mercury and The American Spectator.Early life
Nathan was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the son of Ella (Nirdlinger) and Charles Naret Nathan. He graduated from Cornell University in 1904. There, he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society and an editor of the Cornell Daily Sun. There is some evidence that Nathan was Jewish and sought (successfully) to conceal it.
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Though he published a paean to bachelorhood (The Bachelor Life, 1941), Nathan had a reputatio...
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- No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
- Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
- Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
- To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
- Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
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