Joseph Wood Krutch Summary

Joseph Wood Krutch (1893 – 1970) American Literary Critic and Naturalist Through much of his career, Krutch was a teacher of criticism at Columbia University and a drama critic for The Nation. ... Read more

The career of Joseph Wood Krutch is remarkable for its variety of achievement. In his early years he became highly visible as a New York drama critic writing for the Nation. In the last decades of his... Read more

The life of Joseph Wood Krutch is a study in transformation. In the 1920s he was a spokesman for the cynical modernists, who felt that all values had been lost. As part of the New York intellectual ci... Read more

Critical Essay by Lynn Harold Hough The men who come to life not with standards, but with a vast and varied genius of understanding are, of course, all the while having their say. And work of this so... Read more

Critical Essay by Walter Prichard Eaton If Joseph Wood Krutch had been writing about our drama in 1909 instead of 1939, one suspects that what is now his most valuable asset as a critic would have be... Read more

Critical Essay by John Gassner Joseph Wood Krutch has accurately sub-titled ["Modernism" in Modern Drama] "A Definition and Estimate." According to him, modernism consists... Read more

Critical Essay by William Holtz In Krutch's autobiography [More Lives Than One], there is a strong sense of crisis, insight and redirection at two points in his career; the result in both inst... Read more