Mark (Albert) Van Doren - Publications

Poet, teacher, and writer, born in Hope, Illinois, USA, the brother of Carl Van Doren. He studied at the University of Illinois (1914 BA; 1915 MA), and Columbia University (1920 PhD), where he taught English (1920–59). He also taught at St John's College (Maryland) (1937–57) and Harvard (1963). A prolific scholar and writer, he wrote children's books, critical studies, and plays, notably The Last Days of Lincoln (1959). He is best known for his carefully crafted poetry, as in Collected and New Poems, 1924–1963 (1963). He lived in New York City and Falls Village, CT.

Mark Van Doren (June 13, 1894 – December 10, 1972) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and critic.

Van Doren then taught at Columbia from 1920 to 1959 and twice served on the staff of The Nation. His students at Columbia included poet Allen Ginsberg and Thomas Merton, the writer, activist, and Trappist monk.

Mark Van Doren married the novelist Dorothy Graffe Van Doren in 1922.

Publications

Wikisource has original works written by or about: Mark Van Doren

Poetry:

Spring Thunder (1924) Jonathan Gentry (1931) Winter Diary (1935) Collected Poems 1922-1938 (1939), Winner of the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry The Mayfield Deer (1941) The Last Days of Lincoln (1959)

Novels:

The Transients (1935) Windless Cabins (1940) Tilda (1943)

Nonfiction:

The Poetry of John Dryden (1920) American and British Literature Since 1890 (1939), with Carl Van Doren Shakespeare (1939) The Liberal Education (1943) The Noble Voice (1946) Nathaniel Hawthorne (1949) Introduction to Poetry (1951) The Happy Critic (1961)