Joseph wood krutch biography
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Joseph Wood Krutch wore many literary hats. As one of the 20th century’s leading men of letters, the drama critic, university teacher, biographer, and magazine columnist authored several thousand essays and wrote or edited thirty-five books.
Joseph wood krutch the modern temper
An early work entitled The Modern Temper (1929) propelled him to fame. The book exuded disillusionment and despair. Krutch described how science replaced religious certainties with rational skepticism, leaving man in a meaningless world.
But Krutch later discovered profound meaning in Nature. He became a celebrated nature writer and perhaps the first contemporary conservationists to explicitly embrace Pantheism.
Joseph wood krutch biography
Krutch spent the initial 22 years of life in his birthplace, Knoxville, Tennessee. He had an ordinary upbringing but nonetheless displayed an extraordinary intellect. When a Sunday school teacher recounted that the lion would one day lay down with the lamb, Krutch thought to himself "if the lion ever tries it he will starve to