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He is the author of ten volumes of verse; he has edited the Oxford Book of American Prose and an impressive Anthology of World Poetry; and in 1939 the publication of his Collected...
Mark Van Doren(June 13, 1894 – December 10, 1972) Nationally famous as a novelist, playwright, critic, editor, and poet (his Collected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940), at the College Van Doren is also remembered as the quintessential great teacher.
After nearly 40 years as a member of the English faculty, Professor Van Doren (who received his Ph.D. from Columbia’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1920) finally taught his last course — a perennial student favorite titled “The Narrative Art” — in fall 1959.
Nationally famous as a novelist, playwright, critic, editor, and poet (his Collected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940), at the College Van Doren is also remembered as the quintessential great teacher.
Writing with an incomparable knowledge of his subject but without a hint of pedantry, Van Doren elucidates both the astonishing boldness and myriad subtleties of Shakespeare's protean art. His Shakespeare is a book to be treasured by both new and longtime students of the Bard. Genres NonfictionLiterary CriticismEssaysCriticismPoetryHistoryClassics.
American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and literary critic, Mark Van Doren was born on June 13, 1894. He graduated from the University of Illinois in 1914, and earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1920. He was the brother of Carl Clinton Van Doren (1885-1950), a noted historian and author.
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Mark Van Doren (Condado de Vermilion, 13 de junio de 1894 – Torrington (Connecticut), 10 de diciembre de 1972) fue un poeta, crítico literario y profesor universitario estadounidense, ganador del Premio Pulitzer.
