Facts about Carl Clinton Van DorenUSA Flag

Occup.Critic
FromUSA
BornSeptember 10, 1885
DiedJuly 18, 1950
Aged64 years

Summary

Carl Clinton Van Dorenwas a famous Critic from USA, who lived between September 10, 1885 and July 18, 1950. He/she became 64 years old.

Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac virgo, who is known for Analyzing, Practical, Reflective, Observation, Thoughtful. Our collection contains 9 quotes who is written / told by Carl.

9 Famous quotes by Carl Clinton Van Doren

Small: Carl Clinton Van Doren: IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sy
"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 through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction"
Small: Carl Clinton Van Doren: In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation w
"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 cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked"
Small: Carl Clinton Van Doren: The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and th
"The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure"
Small: Carl Clinton Van Doren: Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally ide
"Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained"
Small: Carl Clinton Van Doren: Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learnin
"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience"
Small: Carl Clinton Van Doren: Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the
"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 and a fiendish bandit"
Small: Carl Clinton Van Doren: Yes, its hard to write. But its harder not to
"Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to"
Small: Carl Clinton Van Doren: The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land
"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 of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers"
Small: Carl Clinton Van Doren: Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a
"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 stigma, for the most part, from the word novel"