| | ''The Conservative Mind'', the published version of Kirk's doctoral dissertation, helped revive interest in [[Edmund Burke]] as well as: | | ''The Conservative Mind'', the published version of Kirk's doctoral dissertation, helped revive interest in [[Edmund Burke]] as well as: |
| | *Conservative European and American statesmen such as [[John Adams]], [[George Canning]], [[John C. Calhoun]], [[Joseph de Maistre]], [[Benjamin Disraeli]], and [[Arthur Balfour]]; | | *Conservative European and American statesmen such as [[John Adams]], [[George Canning]], [[John C. Calhoun]], [[Joseph de Maistre]], [[Benjamin Disraeli]], and [[Arthur Balfour]]; |
| − | *The conservative side of such well-known authors as [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], [[Walter Scott]], [[James Fenimore Cooper]], [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]], [[James Russell Lowell]], [[George Gissing]], [[George Santayana]], and [[T. S. Eliot]]; | + | *The conservative side of such well-known authors as [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], [[Walter Scott]], [[James Fenimore Cooper]], [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]], [[James Russell Lowell]], [[George Gissing]], [[George Santayana]], and [[Thomas Stearns Eliot]]; |
| | *Onscure British and American authors such as [[Fisher Ames]], [[John Randolph of Roanoke]], [[Orestes Brownson]], [[John Henry Newman]], [[Walter Bagehot]], [[Henry Maine]], [[Edwin Lawrence Godkin]], [[Leslie Stephen]], [[Albert Venn Dicey]], [[Paul Elmer More]], and [[Irving Babbitt]]. ''The Portable Conservative Reader'' (1982), which Kirk edited, contains sample writings by most of the authors he favored. | | *Onscure British and American authors such as [[Fisher Ames]], [[John Randolph of Roanoke]], [[Orestes Brownson]], [[John Henry Newman]], [[Walter Bagehot]], [[Henry Maine]], [[Edwin Lawrence Godkin]], [[Leslie Stephen]], [[Albert Venn Dicey]], [[Paul Elmer More]], and [[Irving Babbitt]]. ''The Portable Conservative Reader'' (1982), which Kirk edited, contains sample writings by most of the authors he favored. |