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    Van Wyck Brooks (February 16, 1886 – May 2, 1963) was an American literary critic, biographer, and historian. Brooks was born in Plainfield, New Jersey...
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  • subway Van Wyck Brooks (1886–1963), American writer and historian F. Van Wyck Mason (1901–1978), American historian and novelist Anthony Van Wyck (1822–1900)...
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    Plainfield's Van Wyck Brooks Historic District", The Star-Ledger, September 21, 2012. Accessed June 10, 2018. Our History, The Van Wyck Brooks Historic District...
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  • Carl Sandburg, Van Wyck Brooks, and W. B. Yeats. The Dial published art as well as poetry and essays, with artists ranging from Vincent van Gogh, Renoir...
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    becoming cramped. With the death of town resident Van Wyck Brooks, a biographer and critic, a "Van Wyck Brooks Memorial Fund was set up to raise money for a...
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    The Van Wyck Brooks Historic District is a 99-acre (40 ha) historic district located in the city of Plainfield in Union County, New Jersey. Named after...
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    by literary and cultural critics as well as historians, including Van Wyck Brooks, Lewis Mumford, Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard, Vernon Louis...
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  • the little magazine, was edited by James Oppenheim, Waldo Frank, and Van Wyck Brooks; it appeared monthly from November 1916 through October 1917. Jointly...
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    Paul (2011) [1921]. Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals. Translated by Van Wyck Brooks. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-29441-4. Gauguin...
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  • connections in intellectual and cultural circles included Van Wyck Brooks, Rosa Ponselle, Mark Van Doren and Llewelyn Jones. His friendship with Wallace Stevens...
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  • graduating summa cum laude in 1921. His writing career began when Van Wyck Brooks, the Harvard teacher he most admired, invited him to write for The...
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    in the canon, but after his death, some American critics, such as Van Wyck Brooks, expressed hostility towards James for his long expatriation and eventual...
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  • written Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford (1990) and edited The Arts of Democracy:...
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    and history, the term is sometimes used metaphorically. The title of Van Wyck Brooks' New England: Indian Summer (1940) suggests an era of inconsistency...
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    Stein, Horace Kallen, Walter Lippmann, W. E. B. Du Bois, Conrad Aiken, Van Wyck Brooks, Felix Frankfurter, Max Eastman, and Wallace Stevens. Stevens was especially...
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    Asimov, Bertrand R. Brinley, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Ray Bradbury, Van Wyck Brooks, Arthur C. Clarke, J. Allan Dunn, Bobby Fischer, Alex Haley, Robert...
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    Andrew C. McLaughlin A Constitutional History of the United States 1937 Van Wyck Brooks The Flowering of New England, 1815–1865 1938 Paul Herman Buck The Road...
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  • officer of Microsoft Birendra of Nepal, King of Nepal from 1972 to 2001 Van Wyck Brooks, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, literary critic, and biographer...
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    American poet William Cullen Bryant published a blank verse version, that Van Wyck Brooks describes as "simple, faithful". An 1898 translation by Samuel Butler...
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  • collections. The volume includes an Introduction by biographer and critic Van Wyck Brooks. Literary critic Robert F. Gish writes: It is clear that the fifty-two...
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  • title Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford. Bullard, Paddy (2019). The Oxford...
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    ambiguities, appeared together in 1921. Characteristic issues were whether Adriaan van Maanen had measured rotation in a spiral nebula, the nature and luminosity...
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    (1990). Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank & Lewis Mumford. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina...
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    1999. p. 190 accessed January 1, 2014 "Bing Crosby Again Box-Office Leader: Van Johnson Second in Film Poll of Exhibitors – Rogers Wins for Westerns". The...
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  • LeMaster (2011). The Routledge Encyclopedia of Mark Twain. Routledge. Van Wyck Brooks (1920). Ordeal of Mark Twain. E.P. Dutton & Company. Twain, Mark. "The...
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    "The Magnificent Ambersons is perhaps Tarkington's best novel," said Van Wyck Brooks. "[It is] a typical story of an American family and town—the great...
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    would be an insult to himself and his profession".[citation needed] Van Wyck Brooks joked (in public) that "her work is the best example of unintentional...
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  • Izzadeen Van Wyck Brooks, American writer Vaushaun Brooks (born 1980), American hip hop record producer, known by the stage name Maestro Vic Brooks (born...
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  • Andrew C. McLaughlin (1936) The Flowering of New England, 1815–1865 by Van Wyck Brooks (1937) The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900 by Paul Herman Buck (1938) A...
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  • Andrew C. McLaughlin (1936) The Flowering of New England, 1815–1865 by Van Wyck Brooks (1937) The Road to Reunion, 1865–1900 by Paul Herman Buck (1938) A...
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