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...years since Van Wyck Brooks published his first book (The Wine of the Puritans) he has risen to a commanding height as a U. S. critic. Beginning in that work to examine "our inherited cultural resources," he has occupied himself ever since with his penetrating analyses of the dilemmas of creative genius in U. S. society, establishing a critical landmark when he wrote America's Coming of Age in 1915 and producing a native classic with The Ordeal of Mark Twain five years later. Last week Van Wyck Brooks offered the first volume of a literary history...
...virtually no U. S. art; it ends in 1865 when the Civil War had already put an end to the quiet way of life that gave rise to New England culture. In these 50 years the greatest literature that the U. S. can claim was produced. The purpose of Critic Brooks's history is not only to re-examine the productions themselves, but to visualize the social conditions that nourished them, to study the men who created them, to summon up what was good in that society for its measure of guidance for the present. Van Wyck Brooks sees...
...that it was his wife's work. For six years thereafter the collaboration persisted, with Colette writing the books and her husband signing them. Divorcing him in 1906, she acted for a time, married Diplomat Henri de Jouvenel in 1910, became a leading contributor to Le Matin, dramatic critic on another paper, editor of a publishing house, author of some 30 volumes of plays, novels, short stories, essays...
Those now famous teeth of Jeanette MacDonald's have long irritated me. ... I was overjoyed to see them back into print. ... I offer my compliments to your cinema critic...
Your weekly onslaught against the British Empire is really quite amusing, and I am writing to suggest that you change the name of your paper to the "Armchair Critic...