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Van Wyck Brooks | | Birth Date: |
February 16, 1886 | | Death Date: |
May 2, 1963 | | Nationality: |
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 Biography of Van Wyck Brooks
12,104 words, approx. 40 pages
 For over half a century Van Wyck Brooks devoted himself to understanding and shaping American culture. His career is divided in two. In the first part he was one of the most important cultural critics of the progressive era, looked to by American... summary from source:
Biography of Van Wyck Brooks
6,904 words, approx. 23 pages
In the years between World War I and World War II Van Wyck Brooks was one of the most important intellectual leaders in the United States, lrving Howe dated the beginnings of modern criticism from the publication of Brooks's America's Coming-of-Age in... summary from source:
Biography of Van Wyck Brooks
3,261 words, approx. 11 pages
During his undergraduate years at Harvard, Van Wyck Brooks had ambitions of becoming a poet. His poetry appeared regularly in the Harvard Advocate, and in 1905, he and another aspiring writer, John Hall Wheelock, privately published a small volume of... 
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Van Wyck Brooks Information
252 words, approx. 1 pages
 Van Wyck Brooks (b. Plainfield, New Jersey, February 16 1886; d. Bridgewater, Connecticut, May 2 1963) was an American literary critic, biographer, and historian. Brooks was educated at Harvard University and graduated in 1908. The masterpiece of his...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by RenÉ Wellek
2,739 words, approx. 9 pages
When I was in this country for the first time, some time in 1928, I read Van Wyck Brooks' America's Coming-of-Age and admired his penetrating observations on the literary conditions of America and his trenchant criticisms of many of the main authors of nineteenth-century America. I, as a Czech, relished the strongly critical attitude of Mr. Brooks to his own literature, as I myself had grown up in a similar critical atmosphere, which reacted against the idols and ideals of the nineteenth centu... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Raymond Nelson
2,652 words, approx. 9 pages
Makers and Finders is a romantic history shaped according to the familiar liberal analysis that divides American society between the progressive, democratic values best represented by Thomas Jefferson and the aristocratic reaction represented by Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists. That interpretation has been influential during much of this century, and Brooks might have had it most directly from Vernon L. Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought (1927–1930), among any number of othe... summary from source:
Critical Essay by William Wasserstrom
1,772 words, approx. 6 pages
The displacement of Van Wyck Brooks from the center to the farthest margins of literary influence today is surely a stunning shift of taste. In 1920 Brooks was regarded as the undisputed heir of the great tradition in American thought—the radical, reformist, prophetic, "organic" tradition which adopted Emerson as its source of inspiration, took The American Scholar as its point of departure, and envisioned as its point of terminus a civilization in which the creative spirit, in all its ...
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