Word: wyck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Confident Years (1885-1915), by Van Wyck Brooks. Fifth and concluding volume of Critic Brooks's guided tour of American literature (TIME...
...CONFIDENT YEARS (1885-1915) 627 pp.)-Van Wyck Brooks-Dutton...
...most ambitious projects ever undertaken by an American writer is now complete. At 65, Van Wyck Brooks has produced the fifth and final volume of a 20-year labor of learning: Makers and Finders: a History of the Writer in America...
...Upright or Fallen? If U.S. literature consisted only of minor figures, Van Wyck Brooks would be its perfect historian. He is fine at netting the minnows: expatriate Logan Pearsall Smith, who thought to win immortality through "a perfect phrase"; Gertrude Stein, who "looked and walked like a corpulent monk" and ended by writing baby talk. But with the big fish, Brooks stumbles almost as badly as he did with Hawthorne and Melville in earlier volumes. Stephen Crane's stories and Dreiser's novels ask for far more rigorous analysis than Brooks pauses to give them...
...judges* happen to "like very much, for any reason at all." Among books so chosen: The Battle h the Payoff, by Ralph Ingersoll; Inside U.S.A., by John Gunther. But the method, or lack of one, has also given B-o-M customers The World of Washington Irving by Van Wyck Brooks and Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell...