Word: doren
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confess, is a rough Diamond; and must first be polish'd e'er he shines") was one. Latest is Columbia Professor George Philip Krapp. Partly because new books are scarce around Christmastime, partly because Random House books look well on any shelves, partly because Editors Carl Van Doren and Joseph Wood Krutch were "terribly enthusiastic," the Literary Guild has chosen Troilus & Cressida as its December book. Keeping Chaucer's conversational seven-line stanza, adding and subtracting nothing, so that the poem is line for line, stanza for stanza, though not word for word as Chaucer wrote...
...Operas William Barry Wood Masefield's Poems Paul Maurice Zoll Sterne: Tristram Shandy Class of 1933 Molvin Leon Anshon Rowley's Poems Morton Clark Bradley Soldlitz: History of Japanese Color Prints George Frank Emerson Butron's Anatomy of Melancholy Henry Greenberg Whitman: Leaves of Grass Harlan Michael Levin Van Doren: Anthology of World Poetry Arnold George Malkan Walton: Compleat Angler Isadore Paisnor James: Charles W. Eliot Robert Chester Smith Whistler's Works Francis Van Vanice James: Charles W. Eliot Class of 1934 Henry Aranow Education of Henry Adams Milton Bornstein Combe: Tours of Dr. Syntax Harold Simson Cone Morison: Development...
Lawyer Ernst marshalled an attack upon the character of the Society. He summoned famed writers and artists to testify that the Society "could not tell the difference between filth and literature." Writer Carl Van Doren called the Society "a conspicuous nuisance in the community." Heywood Broun, co-biographer with Margaret Leech (Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer) of Anthony Comstock, said that the plaintiff's reputation was "bad." Artist Rockwell Kent testified that by emphasizing the "filth" in books which it disapproves (notably Jurgen, Casanova's Homecoming and The Well of Loneliness) the Society has boosted sales of such books beyond...
...Significance. Poet Van Doren seems to say the old stock is dwindling into nothing or losing itself in the maelstrom of the city. The U. S. might have been a Promised Land but its chance is passing, perhaps has already passed...
...Authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner is a country mouse, Mark Van Doren a town mouse. Their view of country people is dissimilar: Poet Warner's satirical, Poet Van Doren's nostalgic. Sylvia Townsend Warner lives alone in her house in England with a big black dog, believes in witches although she has never seen the devil in person. Other books: Lolly Willowes, Mr. Fortune's Maggot, The Espalier. Mark Van Doren, lean and serious onetime literary editor of the lean and radical Nation, has also written Spring Thunder, 7 P.M. and Other Poems...