Word: seidel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Seidel Canby - "By no means the moral document. ... It is a 'hardboiled' story of a 'hardboiled' youth, whose tough idealism is a thousand miles and a century away from the transcendental philosophy of Emerson's home'." 'Goodbye, proud world, I'm going home...
...Robert Frost, poet and winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize; Alexander Black, Mary Austin, Gertrude Atherton, novelists; Edwin Arlington Robinson, poet. Below, at smaller tables, were countless others?playwrights such as Owen Davis and Zoe Akins; novelists such as Fannie Hurst and Harvey Fergusson; critics such as Henry Seidel Canby and Clayton Hamilton. Such a clatter! I have never heard more noise...
When Dr. Henry Seidel Canby resigned from the editorship of the Literary Review of The New York Evening Post (TIME, May 19), The Nation, pinko-political review in Manhattan, was endowed with a bit of clairvoyance. It declared: "In these days of unprecedented interest in good literature, it is hard to believe that he can remain without a medium. Even if under another name the urbane spirit of the Literary Review must surely live...
...included the fluent William Lyon Phelps, the dramatic Chauncey Brewster Tinker (author of Young Boswell) the Chestertonian John M. Berdan, the quiet, sage Charlton M. Lewis, now dead, Dean Wilbur Cross, Editor of the Yale Review, and others less well known. From this group the Post secured Dr. Henry Seidel Canby...
This Academician Is Also a Good Journalist Henry Seidel Canby, best known, perhaps, as Editor of the Literary Review of the New York Evening Post, possesses unquenchable vitality, indulges in innumerable activities. He still gives a course at Yale University, to which he formerly gave all of his time as Professor of English. He writes essays, book reviews and, on special occasions, novels. He is an editorial advisor for Harper Brothers. He lectures-and doubtless does many other things of which a former pupil of his does not know...