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Brooks, Van Wyck
Born: 1886 AD
Died: 1963 AD, at 77 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: Biographers, Critics
Died: 1963 AD, at 77 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: Biographers, Critics
US critic, essayist, and historian
wrote "America's Coming-of-Age" 1915, "The Ordeal of Mark Twain" 1920, "The Flowering of New England" 1936 (Pulitzer Prize for history 1937)
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- "The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses."
- "The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man."
- "As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day."
- "Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means."
- "The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible."
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FENOLLOSA AND HIS CIRCLE. With Other Essays in Biography. by Van Wyck. (Ernest Fenollosa) BROOKS (Hardcover - Aug 30, 1962) |
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The Flowering Of New England 1815 - 1865 (The Modern Library Of The World's Best Books) by Van Wyck Brooks (Hardcover - Jun 1, 1941)  |
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Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford (Cultural Studies of the United States) by Casey N. Blake (Hardcover - Nov 30, 1990) |
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Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals by Paul Gauguin (Paperback - Mar 1, 2007) Usually ships in 24 hours |
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America's Coming of Age by Van Wyck Brooks (Hardcover - Apr 30, 1992) Usually ships in 2 to 5 weeks |
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Philine From the Unpublished Journals of Henri-Frederic Amiel by Henri-Frederic; Brooks, Van Wyck (Translation) And Jaloux, Edmond (Introduction) Amiel (Hardcover - Aug 30, 2008) |
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