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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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The Ordeal Of Mark Twain (1920) by Van Wyck Brooks (Paperback - Oct 17, 2007) Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865; Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne and the beginnings of American literature by Van Wyck Brooks (Paperback - Mar 17, 1981)  |
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The dream of Arcadia;: American writers and artists in Italy, 1760-1915 by Van Wyck Brooks (Unknown Binding - May 17, 2008) |
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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 Nelson Blake (Paperback - Nov 30, 1990) The "Young American" critics—Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford—are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village "Little Renaissance" of the 1910s... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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From A Writer's Notebook by Van Wyck Brooks (Unknown Binding - May 17, 2008) |
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Writers at Work 02 (Paris Review) (Paperback - Nov 17, 1977) |
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