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 Ha...
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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...
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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...
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Van Wyck Brooks
