Carl Clinton Van Doren Quotes

Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 11 quotes by Carl Clinton Van Doren Carl Clinton Van Doren (September 10, 1885 – July 18, 1950) was a U.S. critic and Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer. He was the brother of Mark Van Doren and the uncle of Charles Van Doren. He won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Benjamin Franklin. Read full biography of Carl Clinton Van Doren → The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. 0 Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the... → 0 The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery... → 0 Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia... → 0 In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer... → 0 Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an... → 0 The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies. 0 The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work... → 0 Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to. 0 Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers... → 0 IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing... → 0 Add a quote!


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