Mark Van Doren Summary

As professor of English at Columbia University and literary editor and reviewer for the Nation, poet, critic, teacher, and anthologist Mark Van Doren resided through most of his career at the very cen... Read more

Critical Essay by Marguerite Young The poems of Mark Van Doren seem to be written in the rough music or muted undertone of a doubting intellect, the scraping, sad music of waves upon a rock barren of... Read more