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Mark Van Doren (1894–1972)

Autore di Shakespeare

91+ opere 1,129 membri 15 recensioni 1 preferito

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Opere di Mark Van Doren

Shakespeare (1939) 352 copie
An Anthology of World Poetry (1928) — A cura di — 152 copie
Liberal Education (1943) 67 copie
The World's Best Poems (1929) — A cura di — 32 copie
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1949) 31 copie
Introduction to Poetry (1951) 30 copie
The Autobiography of Mark Van Doren (1958) — Autore — 20 copie
Mark Van Doren: 100 Poems (1967) 13 copie
Don Quixote's Profession (2013) 13 copie
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1927) 12 copie
The Country Year: Poems (2013) 7 copie
A junior anthology of world poetry, (1936) — A cura di — 7 copie
Masterpieces of American Poets (1936) — A cura di — 6 copie
Collected Poems (1939) 6 copie
Good morning: last poems (1973) 5 copie
The Best of Hawthorne (1951) 4 copie
Selected poems (1954) 4 copie
American Poets 1630-1930 (1932) — A cura di — 4 copie
An Autobiography of America (1929) — A cura di — 4 copie
Somebody Came (1966) 3 copie
The Oxford Book of American Prose — A cura di — 3 copie
New Poems (1948) 3 copie
Jonathan Gentry (1931) 2 copie
Tilda (1943) 2 copie
Samuel Sewell's Diary (1963) 2 copie
Humanity Unlimited (1950) 1 copia
Walt Whitman 1 copia
Mortal summer 1 copia
Nobody Say a Word (1953) 1 copia
The Seven Sleepers (1944) 1 copia
The Happy Critic (1961) 1 copia

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Washington Square (1880) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni4,389 copie
Amleto - Otello - Macbeth - Re Lear (1982) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni1,104 copie
Il sogno della camera rossa (1791) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni795 copie
Dream of the Red Chamber [Abridged] (1791) — Preface, alcune edizioni755 copie
The Portable Walt Whitman: Revised Edition (1974) — A cura di, alcune edizioni563 copie
Travels of William Bartram (1928) — A cura di, alcune edizioni359 copie
4 Plays: As You Like It; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Tempest; Twelfth Night (1948) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni283 copie
The 40s: The Story of a Decade (2014) — Collaboratore — 275 copie
The Literary Cat (1977) — Collaboratore — 241 copie
The Portable Emerson (1946) — A cura di, alcune edizioni221 copie
Return to Ithaca (1946) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni157 copie
The Fantastic Imagination (1977) — Collaboratore — 154 copie
2 Plays: Henry VIII; King John (1986) — Criticism, alcune edizioni137 copie
The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound 1907-1941 (1950) — Preface, alcune edizioni131 copie
A Comprehensive Anthology of American Poetry (1929) — Collaboratore — 128 copie
Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth (Modern Library) (1950) — A cura di — 126 copie
The Worlds of Science Fiction (1963) — Collaboratore — 112 copie
Twentieth-Century American Poetry (1777) — Collaboratore — 96 copie
Century Readings in English Literature (1910) — A cura di, alcune edizioni67 copie
60 Years of American Poetry (1996) — Collaboratore — 28 copie
Pulitzer Prize Reader (1961) — Collaboratore — 27 copie
Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre (1947) — Collaboratore — 26 copie
America on Stage : Ten Great Plays of American History (1976) — Collaboratore — 22 copie
Ellery Queen's Poetic Justice (1967) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni18 copie
Fire and Sleet and Candlelight: New Poems of the Macabre (1961) — Collaboratore — 16 copie
The Best American Short Stories 1953 (1953) — Collaboratore — 15 copie
Poetry in Crystal (1963) — Collaboratore — 15 copie
Invitation to Learning (1941)alcune edizioni14 copie
The Best American Short Stories 1955 (1955) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
Three distinctive plays about Abraham Lincoln (1961) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
The Best American Short Stories 1952 (1952) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Strange Desires (1954) — Collaboratore — 5 copie
Writing Books for Boys and Girls (1952) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni5 copie
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 8, April 1981 — Collaboratore — 3 copie
To You With Love: A Treasury of Great Romantic Literature (1969) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
A Magnum of Mysteries (1963) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 10, June 1977 — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Columbia poetry, 1936 — A cura di — 1 copia

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This slim book contains a set of three lectures Van Doren delivered at Emory University in 1956. In a wry and genial manner, Van Doren makes the case that Don Quixote is one of the greatest books ever written.
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.”
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HenrySt123 | 1 altra recensione | Oct 12, 2022 |
El autor consagra esta obra a la que, para él, es quizá "la mejor novela del mundo", y nos dice por qué, en su opinión, Don Quijote, "es el caballero andante más perfecto que haya existido; en realidad, el único que podemos concebir"
 
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Daniel464 | 1 altra recensione | Aug 20, 2021 |
I don't read much poetry, but I picked up this collection at the Book Den in Oak Bluffs, MA, and read it during a snowy winter and spring on the Island. It was well worth the $8 and the half hour spent in a chilly barn poking through boxes of used books.
 
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resoundingjoy | 1 altra recensione | Jan 1, 2021 |
Mark Van Doren won the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Collected Poems 1922–1938. I am flabbergasted how he achieved so much respect in regards to his poetry of such colossal mediocrity. Van Doren was also a writer and a critic, as well as a scholar and a professor of English for nearly forty years at Columbia University. He inspired Beat writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. He was for a time literary editor of The Nation. He is a significant example, and part of the reason, for why, in general, I hate poetry.… (altro)
 
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MSarki | 1 altra recensione | Jan 23, 2016 |

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Opere
91
Opere correlate
46
Utenti
1,129
Popolarità
#22,743
Voto
3.9
Recensioni
15
ISBN
47
Lingue
1
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