Van Wyck Brooks

Van Wyck Brooks, the great literary critic, made the point most clearly.

James Block: The (Untelevised) Revolution Next Door James Block 2011

In 1925, Van Wyck Brooks wrote "The Pilgrimage of Henry James," in which he argued that James greatly diminished his talent by deserting America for England.

The Afterlife of the Lion Joseph Epstein 2012

Van Wyck Brooks, the great literary critic, made the point most clearly.

James Block: The (Untelevised) Revolution Next Door James Block 2011

For a resurgent China with often-controversial business ventures in Africa, Zheng's voyages epitomize what the 20th-century literary critic Van Wyck Brooks called a "usable past" — a historical tradition that serves present needs.

Recovering China's Past on Kenya's Coast Virginia Postrel 2010

It notes that Van Wyck Brooks 'New England: Indian Summer (1940) contains remarks made by the Mayor of Haverhill, Massachusetts at the funeral of John Greenleaf Whittier in which is the following: "Here may we be reminded that man is most honored, not by that which a city may do for him, but by that which he has done for the city."

Obama: I Should Have Credited Patrick 2009

Everybody knows that the terms and the distinction between them were introduced by Van Wyck Brooks, but what is not so widely appreciated is that he introduced them in the service of the Left.

Archive 2009-09-01 2009

Everybody knows that the terms and the distinction between them were introduced by Van Wyck Brooks, but what is not so widely appreciated is that he introduced them in the service of the Left.

Highbrow and lowbrow 2009

Fifty-four years ago, the great American critic Van Wyck Brooks, pre-envisioned a new species of writer, when in The Writer in America he wrote: "I suggest that we need above all at present those who can restore for us a feeling for the true aims of living, who can remind us of the goodness in men, bring back the joy of life and give one a sense of human hope."

Archive 2007-11-01 2007

Fifty-four years ago, the great American critic Van Wyck Brooks, pre-envisioned a new species of writer, when in The Writer in America he wrote: "I suggest that we need above all at present those who can restore for us a feeling for the true aims of living, who can remind us of the goodness in men, bring back the joy of life and give one a sense of human hope."

Fiction That Matters: Chateau Beyond Time 2007

But he was one of those great, so to speak, non-professional literary men that we -- have flourished in this country, like Henry Adams or Van Wyck Brooks or John Crowe Ransom, though he did teach.

Book Business: Publishing: Past, Present, and Future 2001