Mark Van Doren (1894–1972)
Autore di Shakespeare
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Opere di Mark Van Doren
Insights into Literature by van Doren, Mark ; Jewett, Arno ; Achtenhagen, Olga ; Early, Margaret (1965) 7 copie
The new Invitation to learning 6 copie
The Oxford Book of American Prose — A cura di — 4 copie
Morning Worship and Other Poems 3 copie
The transients 3 copie
Collected stories 3 copie
Carl Sandburg: With a bibliography of Sandburg materials in the collections of the Library of Congress (1969) 2 copie
Sex Determination and Sexual Development, Volume 83 (Current Topics in Developmental Biology) (2008) 2 copie
Selección de cuentos 2 copie
The Mayfield deer 2 copie
The Careless Clock: Poems About Children in the Family, signed by the American, author, poet and editor. (1947) 2 copie
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 2 copie
Harvest Poems: 1910-1960 2 copie
In That Far Land 1 copia
Collected Stories, Volume III 1 copia
Never, Never Ask His Name 1 copia
The Noble Voice 1 copia
The last look, and other poems 1 copia
Mortal summer 1 copia
A Winter Diary and Other Poems 1 copia
Walt Whitman 1 copia
The Transparent Tree 1 copia
ENJOYING POETRY 1 copia
Opere correlate
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Collaboratore — 407 copie
4 Plays: As You Like It; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Tempest; Twelfth Night (1948) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni — 283 copie
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Collaboratore — 154 copie
Gentlemen, Scholars and Scoundrels: A Treasury of the Best of Harper's Magazine from 1850 to the Present (1959) — Collaboratore — 55 copie
Adventures of the Mind, from The Saturday Evening Post [First series] (1959) — Introduzione — 31 copie
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 8, April 1981 — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 10, June 1977 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Columbia poetry, 1936 — A cura di — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1894-06-13
- Data di morte
- 1972-12-10
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Hope, Illinois, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Torrington, Connecticut, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Hope, Illinois, USA (birth)
Torrington, Connecticut, USA (death) - Istruzione
- Columbia University (PhD, 1920)
- Attività lavorative
- poet
teacher
literary critic - Relazioni
- Van Doren, Charles (son)
Van Doren, Carl (brother)
Van Doren, John (son) - Organizzazioni
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1940)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (1967)
Emerson-Thoreau Medal (1963)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 91
- Opere correlate
- 46
- Utenti
- 1,134
- Popolarità
- #22,631
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 15
- ISBN
- 47
- Lingue
- 1
- Preferito da
- 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.”… (altro)