Denton Jaques Snider

Denton Jaques Snider (1841–1925) was an American philosopher, critic and teacher, a leading member of the St. Louis Hegelians. Born in Ohio and educated at Oberlin, he served in the Civil War, then taught in St. Louis, where he joined William Torrey Harris's Philosophical Society, and later lectured at the Concord School of Philosophy. He published a long series of commentaries on what he called the literary bibles of the West, Homer, Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe, as well as books on psychology, education and the kindergarten, poems and an autobiography, A Writer of Books. Many of his works were issued by the Sigma Publishing Company of St. Louis.