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	Encyclopedia: Van Wyck Brooks
		Born into an affluent family, Brooks was educated at Harvard University and graduated in 1908.
		The masterpiece of his literary career was a series of studies entitled Makers and Finders, which chronicled the development of American literature during the long 19th century.
		Brooks' reputation rested especially on his success in weaving prolific biographical detail into brilliant anecdotal prose.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Van-Wyck-Brooks (425 words)

	Van Wyck Brooks -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The U.S. literary critic, biographer, and literary historian Van Wyck Brooks is largely remembered for his “Finders and Makers,” a series that traces American literary history in rich biographical detail from 1800 to 1915.
		She was Gwendolyn Brooks, poet laureate of Illinois and the first African American winner of a Pulitzer prize for poetry.
		Brook became involved in theater at a young age and had directed several shows before he graduated from Oxford University at age 19.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9318124?tocId=9318124 (744 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Americanness of American Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Van Wyck Brooks' distinctive mark in the contemporary American literary world, the five-volume work that comes to a close with The Confident Years seems to me to be in an...
		...Brooks reports, actually he shows himself utterly unable to understand what the conditions were-what kind of things were the "culture" and the "tradition"-out of which European art and literature grew...
		...Brooks, instead of studying the complexity (about which there is a great deal that a literary critic and historian might helpfully find to say), contemplates, with an optimistic and positive air, the idea of escaping from it...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V14I5P70-1.htm (4624 words)

	The Ordeal of Mark Twain book review
		Brooks hints that Victor Hugo would never have consented to follow the advice of friends as Mark Twain did; but Victor Hugo had no sense of humor, and the complacency with which he looked back upon his career arose from a conceit that was even more colossal than his genius.
		Brooks believes to be his masterpiece, was written during the crowded years of his married life, and much of it was written in Elmira.
		Brooks has written a powerful, thoughtful and ingenious work, but he has endeavored to fit Mark Twain's life and career to a theory, and though he brings many facts and many strong arguments to its support he fails because no man's life can be made to fit a theory.
	www.twainquotes.com /19200627.html (2211 words)

	AllRefer.com - Van Wyck Brooks (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Van Wyck Brooks[van wik´] Pronunciation Key, 1886–1963, American critic, b.
		His first book, The Wine of the Puritans (1909), presented the thesis that American culture has been so pervaded by puritanism with its materialistic emphasis that the artistic side of the nation's life has been profoundly neglected.
		In this series, his masterwork, Brooks interprets American literary history; it is a vivid, varied chronicle, rich in anecdote and infused with the author's humanism.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Brooks-V.html (313 words)

	Scribner's Magazine Reviews by Eli Siegel / The Life of Emerson by Van Wyck Brooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Emerson is one of the most grandly independent, and, certainly, the most iridescent of those Americans who have felt impelled to write down the willy-nilly activities of their minds.
		Brooks most enjoyably and keenly puts down the sights, aromas, sounds, elemental happenings within and about the New England Concord that for years hung around the acquisitive senses of Emerson; but it is a too static and limited Concord that is seen in the book.
		Brooks is the centre of a set of social and cerebral traceries.
	www.elisiegelcollection.net /writings/Scribners_Brooks_1932.htm (370 words)

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		Van Dyck, Sir Anthony, (both: van dik) (KEY), 1599-1641, Flemish portrait and religious painter and etcher, b.
		Jan van de Velde, 1593-1641, was a draftsman and engraver as well as a painter.
		153,525), capital of Van prov., E Turkey, near the eastern shore of Lake Van, at an altitude of 5,659 ft (1,725 m).
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	Henry Van Dyke -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Educated at Princeton, Van Dyke graduated from its theological seminary in 1877 and became a Presbyterian minister.
		U.S. writer Henry Van Dyke was popular in the early decades of the 20th century.
		Van de Velde was one of the leaders of the art nouveau movement.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9074773?tocId=9074773 (732 words)

	Brooks Coat of Arms
		Brooks is one of the names that was brought to England in the wave of migration following the Norman Conquest of 1066.
		Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Henry Brooks of Boston, Massachusetts, who settled in 1630; John Brooke of Montgomery, Pennsylvania, and William Brooks of Virginia settled in 1635.
		"Brooks Family History" by Bernice Brooks Casey, "The Brooks of Virginia" by Bruce Montgomery Edwards.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/brooks-coat-arms.htm (1244 words)

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		Brooks, Van Wyck Brooks, Van Wyckvăn wĬk´, 1886-1963, American critic, b.
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	Brooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We have just been reading Van Wyck Brooks's sort of autobiography about all the people he knew in the Twenties a book he calls the Time of the Phoenix tho' I confess I cannot quite see the point of bringing in the Phoenix!
		Van Wyck Brooks was a friend of Llewelyn Powys and of his wife Alyse Gregory.
		When Alyse visited Van Wyck and his second wife in 1952 in New York State, this is what she wrote:
	www.powys-lannion.net /Powys/America/Brooks.htm (406 words)

	The Claremont Institute: That Old-Time Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When E. Brooks Holifield writes that for the first 100 years of the republic, theology "ruled the realm of ideas," he exaggerates, but not by much.
		The Bible was America's "great code," religious doctrine pervaded literature and the arts and dominated the teaching of philosophy, and for great numbers of Americans, theological argument—the "polemic divinity" Franklin disdained—was romance and mystery and their favorite contestation.
		Brooks Holifield does a remarkable job of evoking the sounds and substance of those disputes.
	www.claremont.org /writings/crb/summer2004/mcwilliams.html?FORMAT=print (1767 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		What explanation of American life is more central or more illuminating?” (3) Brooks writes that the split between “high ideals” and “catchpenny realities” is found in all aspects of American life, and he regrets that there is “no community, no genial middle ground” (3).
		Brooks traces this division to the Puritans who, he argues, experienced life as a split between high ideals (religion) and everyday practical affairs (business), and who did not find a way to connect the two.
		Brooks discusses Edwards and Franklin in some detail, then moves forward into literary and cultural history.
	cla.calpoly.edu:16080 /~rsimon/Hum410/highbrowlowbrow.htm (334 words)

	Series 2: Professional Correspondence, 1900-1958, n.d. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hopes Pach's efforts at promoting the latest in modern art, especially Van Gogh and Lautrec, have been successful; has written a comprehensive book on Van Gogh, which is to be published when the war ends; asks if the Van Gogh painting he loaned to the exhibition has been sold.
		Read a favorable review of the Van Gogh exhibition; asks if Pach was able to sell Duret's Van Gogh still life; his book about Van Gogh will be printed after the war.
		Van Gogh Bonger, Far Rockaway, N.Y. Sons wrote of good times with Pach in Berkeley; they were in Honolulu and now should be in Japan; first volume of the "Letters" has been translated; discusses her brother's friendship with Redon.
	artarchives.si.edu /findmicrodig/pachwalt/html/series2.html (7964 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Van Wyck Brooks: The Early Years : A Selection from His Works, 1908-1925 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Van Wyck Brooks: The Early Years : A Selection from His Works, 1908-1925
		This 1968 volume includes a selection of his early essays, among them "The Wine of the Puritans," "America's Coming of Age," and "The Ordeal of Mark Twain." This revised edition contains a new foreword by editor Sprague.
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	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/155553175X (253 words)

	X3S2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		1) Writing in 1922, Van Wyck Brooks lamented recent American literature when he wrote "But what immediately strikes one, as one surveys the history of our literature during the last half century, is the singular impotence of its creative spirit.
		Of how many of our modern writers can it be said that their work reveals a continuous growth, or indeed any growth, that they hold their ground tenaciously and preserve their sap from one decade to another?"
		– Van Wyck Brooks, "The Literary Life" in Harold Stearns, ed., Civilization in the United States (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922
	www.indiana.edu /~pb20s/main/X3S2004.htm (277 words)

	Mark Twain (Rexroth) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Van Wyck Brooks established his own critical reputation with a book proving that he was.
		It was a world of driving expansion and brutal hard work that brooked no interference or dissent.
		Because those guffawing, tobacco-spitting travel books that made Mark Twain’s reputation in the first place and that gave Van Wyck Brooks fainting spells are fundamentally right.
	www.bopsecrets.org /rexroth/essays/twain.htm (1326 words)

	Penn Special Collections-Lewis Mumford Papers 3
		Lewis and Sophia Mumford began to deposit their papers at the University of Pennsylvania in 1966, when Robert E. Spiller, a Penn faculty member, was editing The Van Wyck Brooks-Lewis Mumford Letters.
		They include well-known writers and publishers such as Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Harold Ross; modern artists and architects such as Naum Gabo, Clarence Stein, and Frank Lloyd Wright; and contemporary philosophers and intellectuals such as Sir Patrick Geddes, Erich Fromm, and Reinhold Niebuhr.
		He also received copies of his letters to Van Wyck Brooks and David Liebovitz when the correspondence was being prepared for publication in book form, as well as copies of his letters from Sir Patrick Geddes when he was writing his autobiography.
	www.library.upenn.edu /collections/rbm/regis/mumford/mumford_m3.html (1646 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Mark Twain: An American Prophet, by Maxwell Geismar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		...Van Wyck Brooks, in The Ordeal of Mark Twain (1920), was the first to suggest that the crudity and shallowness of American societyfirst on the Missouri frontier of Twain's youth and in the genteel East where he lived his adult lifekept Twain from achieving his full artistic maturity...
		...As is now well-known, these critics have ended by coming over pretty much to Brooks's view (de Voto after editing the late works of Twain's decline) while Brooks, as he developed into a celebrator of the American 19th century, went over to the opposition...
		...Not quite destroyed by the society, as Brooks at first had it, nor yet its unambiguous champion, as de Voto for a time believed, Mark Twain embodied and sometimes made into art that ambiguity toward the mother country that many of us feel and a few allow to degenerate into blind hatred...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V51I3P89-1.htm (2129 words)

	Secession and the Union in Tennessee and Kentucky
		Warren employs two strategies to construct this new framework for history: he returns to his own past in order to reconnect personally, and he revises what he considers to be historiographic misconceptions so that the past will reconcile with the present.
		Warren's strategies ultimately constitute a new historical realism that is intended to provide a more "usable past" (to borrow Van Wyck Brooks' term).
		While much criticism has examined Warren's uses of the past in his fictions and poetry, the biographical narratives particularly offer an examination of the processes with which historical figures have been cast into narratives by themselves and their biographers.
	spider.georgetowncollege.edu /htallant/border/bs11/cullick.htm (2814 words)

	Untitled Document
		Reference to Van Wyck Brooks, Robert Nathan, Edmund Wilson, Maurice Sterne and John Dos Passos (ALS 6/15/1947); Georgina Biddle; Helene Sardeau; James Forrestal, Harold Ickes, Ione Robinson, Carlo Sforza, Carlo Levi (ALS undated).
		References to Robert Nathan, Van Wyck Brooks (TLS 1/23/1955); death of George Howe (ALS 5/23/1955); and to son Michael Biddle.
		References to Sturgis Ingersoll (3/12/1963); Helene Sardeau; Van Wyck Brooks (3/22/1963, 4/12/1963); James and Libby Rowe, John Hall Wheelock (11/1/1963); Livingston Ludlow Biddle, Jr.
	gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/biddlefa/series2.htm (2094 words)

	Katie Kim Weidman's Review
		The author first examines a dichotomy in Mark Twain scholarship that is characterized by the conflicting theories of two prevailing Twain scholars: Bernard DeVoto and Van Wyck Brooks.
		Brooks argues that a sense of “divided self” tormented Clemens and caused his fiction-writing skills to wan as he grew older.
		DeVoto, Brooks, and the vast majority of Twain biographers, however, all agree that women only had a detrimental, if any, effect on Samuel Clemens.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /railton/enam482e/reviews/weidman.html (889 words)

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		BROOKS, VAN WYCK - OBTIUARY NOTICES 1963 Francis B. Biddle Papers
		BROOKS, VAN WYCK - PAPERS, DISPOSITION OF - REF. 1964 Francis B. Biddle Papers
		BROOKS, VAN WYCK - SIGNATURE John G. Deedy, Jr.
	gulib.lausun.georgetown.edu /dept/speccoll/mi/mi}250.htm (722 words)

	Thomas Van Wyck Or Wijk ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Thomas Van Wyck or Wijk, Le mendiant qui tombe a la reverse, 17th century
		Thomas Van Wyck or Wijk, Woman and Child on donkey, man leading it, 17th century
		Thomas Van Wyck or Wijk, Woman and Child on donkey with man on foot leading it, 17th century
	wwar.com /masters/w/wijk-thomas_van_wyck_or.html (566 words)

	VAN WYCK BROOKS TIME MAGAZINE ISSUE - COLLECTIBLE BOOK FOR SALE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Brooks, Van Wyck & The Editors of Time Magazine.
		One of the greatest American literary critics of the 20th century, Van Wyck Brooks deserves to be on the cover of every serious magazine in America, as do many other great artists and writers, were it not for the complete appropriation of the mass magazine by popular culture.
		This fact makes his appearance on Time Magazine's cover, considered the most prestigious in America, a bit quaint and all the more impressive and moving.
	www.modernrare.com /books/2182 (141 words)

	eBay - van wyck, Antiquarian Collectible, Fiction Books items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Eagle in the Sky - F. van Wyck Mason 1948
		Brooks, Van Wyck, THE AMERICAN CARAVAN: A YEARBOOK 1st
		EAGLE IN THE SKY by F. van Wyck Mason 1948
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	Arthur B. Spingarn Papers (Library of Congress)
		Correspondents in the family and personal correspondence include Van Wyck Brooks, Ernest Gruening, Lewis Mumford, Georges Sylvain, Perceval Thoby, and Carl Van Vechten.
		BOX 2 REEL 1 "A" miscellaneous, 1915-1964 American Social Hygiene Association, 1916-1922 "B" miscellaneous, 1916-1967 Brooks, Van Wyck and Gladys, 1939-1963, n.d.
		"T-V" miscellaneous, 1920-1966 Thoby, Perceval (on Haiti), 1923-1927 Van Vechten, Carl, 1925-1960, n.d.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/spingarn.html (2505 words)

	jimpoz.com - Van Wyck Brooks
		Awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature for The Flowering of New England: 1815-1865.
		The repository contains one quote by Van Wyck Brooks.
		Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears.
	www.jimpoz.com /quotes/speaker.php?speakerid=275 (57 words)

	Port Washington Public Library: Sinclair Lewis Collection
		An Autobiography / Van Wyck Brooks -- New York : Dutton, 1965.
		From a Writer’s Notebook / by Van Wyck Brooks -- New York : Dutton, 1958.
		On the Terasse / William Van Wyck -- Paris : Edward W. Titus at the Sign of the Black Manikin, 1930.
	www.pwpl.org /collections/special/SinclairLewis/sl-14.html (2432 words)

	The Pillars Bed & Breakfast, Plainfield, New Jersey - NJ - B&B - Inns - lodging - BNBLIST.COM
		The Pillars of Plainfield Bed and Breakfast Inn is a restored Victorian-Georgian mansion on a secluded acre of trees and wildflowers in the Van Wyck Brooks Historic District of Plainfield.
		The Van Wyck Brooks Suite is decorated with cherry furnishings, queen-size brass bed, and an oversize working fireplace in memory of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author; The Clementine Yates Suite features wicker furnishings, ruffled curtains and a queen-size bed in memory of the lady who renovated the house in 1897.
		Located on an acre of trees and wildflowers in the Van Wyck Brooks Historic District
	www.bnblist.com /nj/pillars/pillars.html (488 words)

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