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...participants in this wide ranging conversation are both Pulitzer Prize winners and professor emeriti: Archibald MacLeish, who this year retired from Harvard prestigious Boylston chair, and Mark Van Doren, who recently ended his long tenure in the English department at Columbia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MACLEISH. VAN DOREN ON TV | 8/2/1962 | See Source »

...placed cameras and microphones strategically about MacLeish's farm in Conway, N.H. and caught the two men's discussions of life, love and literature they roamed about the estate during Van Doren's one-day visit there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MACLEISH. VAN DOREN ON TV | 8/2/1962 | See Source »

...hesitate to take issue with so eminent a Shakespearean as Mark Van Doren, but his statement that the Duke of York "is the one clearly comic personage" in the play is woefully to misread the role. York is not comic; he is piteous. At any rate Patrick Hines brings to York not an interpretation, but a dozen interpretations. I have not the haziest idea what sort of codger Hines takes York to be. And someone should inform Hines that, in Shakespeare, the word 'issue' is not a sneeze...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Eighth Stratford Summer Season Opens With Adept Production Of "Richard II" | 7/2/1962 | See Source »

...Doren taught English at Columbia from 1920 until his retirement in 1959. A noted literary critic, he has written distinguished works on Shakespeare, Dryden, and other major figures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Van Doren Will Give Two Courses Here | 3/7/1962 | See Source »

...Doren joins poet Robert Lowell as the second Pulitzer Prize winner slated to serve as a visiting professor. In the English Department next year. Lowell will teach English Sa, an advanced course in the writing of poetry, and English 285, "Craft of Poetry," a limited course in the reading and criticism of poetry, during the fall term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Van Doren Will Give Two Courses Here | 3/7/1962 | See Source »

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