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...TIMES OF MELVILLE AND WHITMAN (489 pp.)-Van Wyck Brooks-Dutton...
...When Van Wyck Brooks reached those middle years in which a writer dreams of consummating his career with a masterwork, he began his ambitious literary history of the U.S. The Flowering of New England, first volume of the history, provoked one of the bitterest intellectual battles of our time...
...spent itself, they were less sure of what is to come in U.S. writing. Said Robert Penn Warren: "I know that it had better not be the cozy and vulgar version of sweetness-and-light longed for by the friends and relations of Oliver Allston [Elder Critic Van Wyck Brooks] or by complacent tinhorn patrioteers. The times we are heading into shouldn't give much encouragement for that guff except in the lending libraries." Added Dos Passos: "Young writers who believe in themselves should be willing to starve in a garret once more...
Pulitzer Prizewinner Van Wyck Brooks (The Flowering of New England) got a license at 61 to marry Gladys Rice Billings, 60, remote in-law of Massachusetts Senator Leverett. Saltonstall, Songwriter, Milton Drake (Mairzy Doats) was sued for a separation by his lamzy divey, Betty. Dorothy Parker, 53, most-quoted lady with the '30s, was sued for divorce by Fellow Writer Alan Campbell, who complained that they had become strangers. And Mickey Rooney, 24, was sued for separate maintenance by wife Betty Jane (Miss Birmingham 1944), who said she was dissatisfied with her $10,000-a-year settlement after learning...
Pulitzer Prizewinner Van Wyck Brooks (The Flowering of New England) got a license at 61 to marry Gladys Rice Billings, 60, remote in-law of Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall. Songwriter Milton Drake (Mairzy Doats) was sued for a separation by his lamzy divey, Betty. Dorothy Parker, 53, most-quoted lady wit of the '303, was sued for divorce by Fellow Writer Alan Campbell, who complained that they had become strangers. And Mickey Rooney, 24, was sued for separate maintenance by wife Betty Jane (Miss Birmingham 1944), who said she was dissatisfied with her $10,000-a-year settlement after...