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Mark Van Doren (June 13, 1894 – December 10, 1972) was an American poet, writer and critic.

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Mark Van Doren

Mark Van Doren was born on June 13, 1894. He was the son of a doctor and grew up in Illinois.

In 1940, Van Doren’s Collected Poems 1922–1938 (Henry Holt and Company, 1939) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. He published numerous other notable books of poetry and nonfiction, including The Last Days of Lincoln (Hill & Wang, 1959); Selected Poems (Holt, 1954); Nathaniel Hawthorne (W. Sloane Associates, 1949); The Noble Voice (Henry Holt and Company, 1945); Shakespeare (Henry Holt and Company, 1939); American and British Literature since 1890 (Appleton-Century, 1939); Jonathan Gentry (A. & C. Boni, 1931); Spring Thunder (Thomas Seltzer, 1924); and The Poetry of John Dryden (Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920).

Van Doren was a poet, novelist, and critic, and worked at The Nation from 1924–28 and from 1935–38. He was a member of the Society for the Prevention of World War III and a celebrated teacher at Columbia University.

Van Doren died in Torrington, Connecticut, on December 1

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Mark Van Doren was a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer whose considerable writing output included some twenty volumes of original verse. His first collection, Spring Thunder, was not published until he was aged 30. He was also a literary critic and anthologist and one of his most celebrated pieces of work was originally called The Noble Voice, published in 1946. In it he reviewed ten long, classic poems from the likes of Virgil, Milton, Byron, Homer and Wordsworth. A graduate of Columbia University he also held a Professor of English post there between 1942 and 1959 and became known by generations of students as a “quintessentially great teacher”.

He was born in June 1894 in the small town of Hope, Illinois. His father was a country doctor and he spent most of his young life on the family owned farm in eastern Illinois. The Van Doren family could trace their roots back to early Dutch settlers and Van Doren’s father decided to move the family to Urbana, ostensibly for the better opportunities for schooling for his children. It was clear at an early age that both Mark and his broth

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Biography

Van Doren, Mark

(1894–1972)

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Mark Van Doren (June 13, 1894 – December 10, 1972) was an American poet, writer and a critic, apart from being a scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, where he inspired a generation of influential writers and thinkers including Thomas Merton, Robert Lax, John Berryman, and Beat Generation writers such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. He remained literary editor of The Nation, in New York City (1924–28), and its film critic, 1935 to 1938.

Amongst his notable works, many published in The Kenyon Review, include a collaboration with brother Carl Van Doren, American and British Literature since 1890 (1939); critical studies, The Poetry of John Dryden (1920), Shakespeare (1939), The Noble Voice (1945) and Nathaniel Hawthorne (1949); collections of poems including Jonathan Gentry (1931); stories; and the verse play The Last Days of Lincoln (1959).

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