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Mark Van Doren* has done this job and maybe more. His qualifications would be hard to better. As a critic, Van Doren began his career in 1916 with a study of Thoreau, followed by an acute book on Dryden in 1920. An instructor at Columbia, he collaborated with his brother Carl on a textbook in 1925 (American & British Literature Since 1890). A poet of steadily finer weave and frosty skill, he published his Collected Poems this year. From 1935 to 1938 he studied cinema as The Nation's movie critic. And for the last ten years he has taught...
Slight, bespectacled Brooks Atkinson (Times), a reserved, dryly humorous Yankee who writes books on travel and Thoreau. As the Times's critic, he has by far the greatest single influence on box office. Cultivated, impishly able to carve a "turkey" with the best of them, he is now & then a sucker for high-toned emptiness, sometimes recoils from the sweaty and disagreeable. His perfect dish: Our Town...
...long-unheard work turned out to be a sort of musical equivalent to Author Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England. Subtitled Concord, Mass., 1840-60, it attempted to paint in music the surroundings and personalities of such famed New Englanders as Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau and the Alcotts. Most listeners found Composer Ives's complicated tone-portraits hard to grasp at one sitting. But respected New York Herald Tribune Pundit Lawrence Gilman unwrinkled his critical brow, crowed ecstatically: "Exceptionally great music . . . the greatest music composed by an American...
Associate Professor of English at Columbia University, Van Doren is well known as a poet, critic, and editor. He has written studies of Thoreau, Dryden, and Edwin Arlington Robinson. His own books of verse include: "Spring Thunder," "7 P. M.," "Now the Sky," 'A Winter Diary," "The Last Look," and others. He is editor of the "Oxford Book of American Prose," "American Poets 1930-1930," "An Autobiography of America," and "An Anthology of World Poetry...
...Life With Father, Bertha Damon's portrait is more serious than the title suggests. It serves in fact as an excellent psychological document, illustrating in vivid elementary terms how childhood influences act on adult character. For as a grownup Author Damon has reacted against the Thoreau-inspired austerity of her grandmother's house and diet by building and remodeling houses, collecting cookbooks. Reacting against Grandma's taboo on pets, Author Damon makes a hobby of cocker puppies and little pigs...