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Small, bright, Russian-born Jenny Iphigenia Ballou got the idea of doing Ella Wheeler Wilcox several years ago when she and her husband were living near the Wilcox place at Short Beach, Conn. Her witty book obviously owes much to Critic Van Wyck Brooks, with whom she corresponded-though Brooks disagreed with her somewhat unguarded conclusions. There is more than morbid fascination in Period Piece, more than a stunt in Biographer Ballou's reason for doing it: "It may be because critics have been squeamish about penetrating the subliterary world that literature is not at a generally higher level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetess of Passion | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...battles wanted them tidied up for the drawing room." But another factor is at work in re-establishing the value of such books as De Forest's. More important than the change in taste is the current re-examination of U. S. literature represented in works like Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England. That re-examination is burying many an unread bigwig, demonstrating that many a forgotten novelist has more to say to moderns. First discovery that is likely to prove popular, Miss Ravenel's Conversion should speed the search...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rebel Romance | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...narrative brightened by anecdote, distinguished by excellent writing, weighted by a shrewd understanding of frontier social forces. The six-year work of a 37-year-old professor of English at San Diego State College, San Francisco's Literary Frontier is almost a Western counterpart of Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England, looks like a promising Pulitzer Prize contender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Era | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...SINGAPORE EXILE MURDERS-Van Wyck Mason-Crime Club ($2). In Singapore to grab a steel formula wanted by several countries, Hugh North of the U. S. Army Intelligence steps into a murderous international mess. Excitement and exotic ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: June Mysteries | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...probably knows more about New England's history and first families than any man alive. To his knowledge is credited much of the background which has gone into more polished biographies than Author Howe's; notable is The Flowering of New England, by his good friend Van Wyck Brooks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Holmes's Heir | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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