Francis Bowen educator and philosopher, was born in Charlestown and brought up in the best Massachusetts fashion: after attending Phillips Exeter Academy, he went to Harvard College, graduating in 183...
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Francis Bowen championed no discernible theory of criticism, nor did he consider himself primarily a literary critic. Yet as editor and critic he made significant contributions to the cause of literar...
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Best known for his attack on the speculative and stylistic excesses of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature (1836), Francis Bowen was an outspoken opponent of philosophical and literary Transcendentalism duri...
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Francis Bowen