[rip-lee] 
| George, 1802–80, U.S. literary critic, author, and social reformer: associated with the founding of Brook Farm. |
| Rip·ley (rĭp'lē) American minister, scholar, and literary critic. An important figure in the New England Transcendentalist movement, he directed the utopian community at Brook Farm, near Boston (1841-1847), and was the literary critic of the New York Tribune (1849-1880). |
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