![]() ![]() He was raised on his family's farm in eastern Illinois, before his father decided to move to the neighboring town of Urbana, to be closer to good schools. Van Doren was born in Vermilion County, Illinois, the fourth of five sons of the county's doctor, Charles Lucius Van Doren, of remote Dutch ancestry, and wife Eudora Ann Butz. Amongst his other notable works, many published in The Kenyon Review, include a collaboration with brother Carl Van Doren, American and British Literature since 1890 (1939) critical studies, The Poetry of John Dryden (1920), Shakespeare (1939), The Noble Voice (1945) and Nathaniel Hawthorne (1949) collections of poems including Jonathan Gentry (1931) stories and the verse play The Last Days of Lincoln (1959). He won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Collected Poems 1922–1938. He was literary editor of The Nation, in New York City (1924–1928), and its film critic, 1935 to 1938. He was a scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, where he inspired a generation of influential writers and thinkers including Thomas Merton, Robert Lax, John Berryman, Whittaker Chambers, and Beat Generation writers such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. ![]() ![]() Mark Van Doren (J– December 10, 1972) was an American poet, writer and critic. Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1940 for Collected Poems 1922–1938Īcademy of American Poets' Fellowship (1967) ![]()
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