Mark Van Doren (1894–1972)
Auteur van Shakespeare
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Werken van Mark Van Doren
Insights into Literature by van Doren, Mark ; Jewett, Arno ; Achtenhagen, Olga ; Early, Margaret (1965) 7 exemplaren
The new Invitation to learning 6 exemplaren
The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer: A New Modern English Prose Translation (1971) 6 exemplaren
The Oxford Book of American Prose — Redacteur — 4 exemplaren
Home with Hazel and Other Stories 4 exemplaren
Morning Worship and Other Poems 3 exemplaren
The transients 3 exemplaren
Collected stories 3 exemplaren
Man's Right to Knowledge & the Free Use Thereof 3 exemplaren
Carl Sandburg: With a bibliography of Sandburg materials in the collections of the Library of Congress (1969) 2 exemplaren
Sex Determination and Sexual Development, Volume 83 (Current Topics in Developmental Biology) (2008) 2 exemplaren
Selección de cuentos 2 exemplaren
Joy of being serious; address presented at the New Year convocation for students, University of Illinois. 2 exemplaren
The Mayfield deer 2 exemplaren
The Careless Clock: Poems About Children in the Family, signed by the American, author, poet and editor. (1947) 2 exemplaren
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 2 exemplaren
Harvest Poems: 1910-1960 2 exemplaren
Nobody Say a Word and Other Stories 1 exemplaar
In That Far Land 1 exemplaar
Collected Stories, Volume III 1 exemplaar
Never, Never Ask His Name 1 exemplaar
The Noble Voice 1 exemplaar
The last look, and other poems 1 exemplaar
Mortal summer 1 exemplaar
A Winter Diary and Other Poems 1 exemplaar
Wiliam Wordsworth--selected poetry 1 exemplaar
Walt Whitman 1 exemplaar
The Transparent Tree 1 exemplaar
ENJOYING POETRY 1 exemplaar
Home With Hazel and Other Short Stories 1 exemplaar
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4 Plays: Hamlet; King Lear; Macbeth; Othello (1982) — Introductie, sommige edities — 1,112 exemplaren
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Medewerker — 407 exemplaren
4 Plays: As You Like It; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Tempest; Twelfth Night (1948) — Introductie, sommige edities — 283 exemplaren
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Medewerker — 154 exemplaren
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Medewerker — 55 exemplaren
Adventures of the Mind, from The Saturday Evening Post [First series] (1959) — Introductie — 31 exemplaren
The Three Readers: Clifton Fadiman, Sinclair Lewis, Carl Van Doren (1943) — Medewerker — 8 exemplaren
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 8, April 1981 — Medewerker — 3 exemplaren
The Selected Letters of William Cowper; (The Great letters series) (1951) — Redacteur — 2 exemplaren
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 10, June 1977 — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
Columbia poetry, 1936 — Redacteur — 1 exemplaar
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- Geboortedatum
- 1894-06-13
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1972-12-10
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Hope, Illinois, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Torrington, Connecticut, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Hope, Illinois, USA (birth)
Torrington, Connecticut, USA (death) - Opleiding
- Columbia University (PhD, 1920)
- Beroepen
- poet
teacher
literary critic - Relaties
- Van Doren, Charles (son)
Van Doren, Carl (brother)
Van Doren, John (son) - Organisaties
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1940)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (1967)
Emerson-Thoreau Medal (1963)
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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.”… (meer)