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On 8 June 1914 The New York Times reported on the first visit of Georg Brandes to New York: "One of the most remarkable welcomes ever extended to a foreign lecturer was given to Dr. Georg Brandes, the Danish critic and essayist, last night when he delivered his first lecture in New York at the Comedy Theatre on West Forty-first Street." The article recounted how a crowd of one thousand was turned away at the doors of the sold-out theater and that "it was necessary for the police to take a hand in clearing the street" in front of the building. Brandes had made his first trip to the United States for a series of lectures on William Shakespeare, but his fame had preceded him. The works of Georg Morris Cohen Brandes, prolific Danish literary critic, biographer, autobiographer, and intellectual, had already reached a broad international readership. Initiator of the Modern Breakthrough in Scandinavian literature and inaugurator of crucial changes in literary, philosophical, and political currents, Brandes was equally well versed in a wide range of European literatures.
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