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Van Wyck Brooks

Born

in Plainfield, New Jersey, The United States

February 16, 1886

Died

May 02, 1963

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Van Wyck Brooks was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, on February 16, 1886. His parents, Sally and Charles Brooks were well off, and as a result Van Wyck was able to get a good primary education. Van Wyck eventually ended up in Harvard University, from where he graduated in 1908.

Van Wyck Brooks became well known through his work as a literary critic, although he generally is not considered an author of literary works himself.

Brooks is also well known through his work as a historian of American literature during the 19th century, and he produced a series of studies, which were known and published as the “Makers and Finders” series.

One of his books, The Flowering of New England, won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1937.

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	The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865 3.88 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1936 — 68 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World of Washington Irving 4.08 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1944 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New England: Indian Summer, 1865-1915 3.87 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1940 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Helen Keller: Sketch for a Portrait 3.28 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1954 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	America's Coming-of-Age 3.45 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1934 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Literary Heritage: A Pictorial History of the Writer in America, by Van Wyck Brooks, Otto L. Bettmann 4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ordeal of Mark Twain 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1933 — 93 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World of H.G. Wells really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1982 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Times of Melville and Whitman 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2005 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.”
― Van Wyck Brooks

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“All praise to winter, then, was Henry's feeling. Let others have their sultry luxuries. How full of creative genius was the air in which these snow-crystals were generated. He could hardly have marveled more if real stars had fallen and lodged on his coat. What a world to live in, where myriads of these little discs, so beautiful to the most prying eye, were whirled down on every traveler's coat, on the restless squirrel's fur and on the far-stretching fields and forests, the wooded dells and mountain-tops,--these glorious spangles, the sweepings of heaven's floor.”
― Van Wyck Brooks, The Flowering of New England, 1815-1865

tags: beauty, henry-david-thoreau, new-england, snow, snowflakes, walden, winter, wonder

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“Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.”
― Van Wyck Brooks

tags: elitism

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