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Using the transparent disguise for his odd notes on life and literature that he is merely editing the journal of an old friend, Van Wyck Brooks in his latest volume ranges from painting to nationalism in meandering around the dusty corners of a literary critic's mind. Brooks skips from meeting Theodore Roosevelt at a Harvard Advocate punch to the funeral of Mark Twain in the next paragraph. Many such incidents are interesting, but the clumsy devices of editorial comments and numerous long footnotes make any attempt at sustained reading very difficult...
...last week pleaded two scholars at a conference of educators and theologians at Columbia University. They were Professor Douglas Bush of Harvard and Author Van Wyck Brooks (The Flowering of New England...
LONG before the publication of "The Flowering of New England" and "New England: Indian Summer," Van Wyck Brooks was attacking American literature for failing to realize its potentialities. "In these days," Lewis Mumford once wrote, "Mr. Brooks was the first to announce that we had still to use its earth and its sky and the experience that lay between them in the creation of American art and thought." Returning to his capacity as critic rather than historian, Brooks here attacks the prevalent cynicism and defeatism in our contemporary writing...
Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History, was presented with the first medal in 1937. In the previous year he had written his definitive "Three Centuries of Harvard." Van Wyck Brooks '08, whose best-selling "The Flowering of New England" won the Pulitzer Prize, was awarded the second medal...
...ENGLAND: INDIAN SUMMER-Van Wyck Brooks-Dutton...