Mark Van Doren (1894–1972)
Autor(a) de Shakespeare
About the Author
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Obras de Mark Van Doren
Insights into Literature by van Doren, Mark ; Jewett, Arno ; Achtenhagen, Olga ; Early, Margaret (1965) 7 cópias
The new Invitation to learning 6 cópias
The Oxford Book of American Prose — Editor — 4 cópias
Home with Hazel and Other Stories 4 cópias
Morning Worship and Other Poems 3 cópias
The transients 3 cópias
Collected stories 3 cópias
Carl Sandburg: With a bibliography of Sandburg materials in the collections of the Library of Congress (1969) 2 cópias
Sex Determination and Sexual Development, Volume 83 (Current Topics in Developmental Biology) (2008) 2 cópias
Selección de cuentos 2 cópias
The Mayfield deer 2 cópias
The Careless Clock: Poems About Children in the Family, signed by the American, author, poet and editor. (1947) 2 cópias
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 2 cópias
Harvest Poems: 1910-1960 2 cópias
Mark Van Doren reads from his collected and new poems 1 exemplar(es)
Nobody Say a Word and Other Stories 1 exemplar(es)
Hearing Poetry volume one: Chaucer through Milton 1 exemplar(es)
In That Far Land 1 exemplar(es)
Collected Stories, Volume III 1 exemplar(es)
Never, Never Ask His Name 1 exemplar(es)
The Noble Voice 1 exemplar(es)
The last look, and other poems 1 exemplar(es)
Mortal summer 1 exemplar(es)
A Winter Diary and Other Poems 1 exemplar(es)
Wiliam Wordsworth--selected poetry 1 exemplar(es)
Walt Whitman 1 exemplar(es)
An anthology of the finest English and America poetry 1 exemplar(es)
The Transparent Tree 1 exemplar(es)
ENJOYING POETRY 1 exemplar(es)
Home With Hazel and Other Short Stories 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Contribuinte — 407 cópias
4 Plays: As You Like It; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Tempest; Twelfth Night (1948) — Introdução, algumas edições — 283 cópias
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Contribuinte — 153 cópias
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Contribuinte — 55 cópias
Adventures of the Mind, from The Saturday Evening Post [First series] (1959) — Introdução — 31 cópias
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 8, April 1981 — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 10, June 1977 — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Columbia poetry, 1936 — Editor — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1894-06-13
- Data de falecimento
- 1972-12-10
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Hope, Illinois, USA
- Local de falecimento
- Torrington, Connecticut, USA
- Locais de residência
- Hope, Illinois, USA (birth)
Torrington, Connecticut, USA (death) - Educação
- Columbia University (PhD, 1920)
- Ocupação
- poet
teacher
literary critic - Relacionamentos
- Van Doren, Charles (son)
Van Doren, Carl (brother)
Van Doren, John (son) - Organizações
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1940)
- Premiações
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (1967)
Emerson-Thoreau Medal (1963)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 91
- Also by
- 46
- Membros
- 1,132
- Popularidade
- #22,675
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 15
- ISBNs
- 47
- Idiomas
- 1
- Favorito
- 1
Of the Don, Van Doren claims, “He is that rare thing in literature, a completely created character. He is so real that we cannot be sure we understand him.” Even someone who hasn’t read the book, but seen illustrations, knows Cervantes has paired him with an unlikely squire, Sancho Panza, hardly less memorable than the Don. Van Doren shows how the relationship evolves from master and servant to two friends who love each other.
Van Doren argues, based on Don Quixote’s moments of lucidity and the sagacity of his speeches, that, contrary to the repeated assertion in the book that he is mad, he is, on the contrary, aware of what he is doing. In this reading, the Don’s knight-errantry was a hoax meant to entertain and edify the world. When Don Quixote saw that he’d failed in this, he abandoned the hoax (473).
Similarly, Cervantes misdirects us about Sancho Panza. He is illiterate and seems to have only his next meal and a good night’s sleep in mind. Yet when given a chance to govern a town, he displays a native insight into human nature, to the astonishment of those around him, watching for him to fail.
Van Doren characterizes Don Quixote as two interconnected series: adventures and conversations. It is the adventures that stick in the popular imagination. Van Doren asserts, however, that more is “lost by ignoring the speaker” than the deeds.
Van Doren concludes that Don Quixote “is the most perfect knight that ever lived; the only one, in fact, we can believe.” Rather than achieving his avowed aim of destroying the literature of knight-errantry through satire, Cervantes has saved it. He produced “the one treatment of the subject that can be read forever.”… (mais)