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Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972
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Biography
Mark Van Doren (1894-1972), American poet, writer, and critic.
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Millicent Todd Bingham papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 496D
One-fifth of the papers are devoted to correspondence, books, articles, speeches and research notes relating to her publication of Emily Dickinson's poems in Bolts of Melody (1945) and three subsequent books about Emily Dickinson. Bingham's education as well as her professional life as a teacher of French and as a geographer, particularly of Peru, are thoroughly documented with correspondence, research notes, publications and other papers (1885-1929).
Dates: 1865-1968
Found in: Manuscripts and Archives > Millicent Todd Bingham papers
Letters and Christmas cards : to Alice Pearl Raphael, 1935-64
Part of Collection — Box 17: [Barcode: 39002137170263], Folder: GROUP 340,
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William F. Claire Collection on Mark Van Doren, 1940-1987
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Mark Van Doren was a pris Prize-winning writer whose considerable writing output included some twenty volumes of original verse. His first collection, Spring Thunder, was not published until he was aged 30. He was also a literary critic and anthologist and one of his most celebrated pieces of work was originally called The Noble Voice, published in 1946. In it he reviewed ten long, classic poems from the likes of Virgil, Milton, Byron, Homer and Wordsworth. A graduate of Columbia University he also held a Professor of English post there between 1942 and 1959 and became known by generations of students as a “quintessentially great teacher”.
He was born in June 1894 in the small town of Hope, Illinois. His father was a country doctor and he spent most of his ung life on the family owned farm in eastern Illinois. The Van Doren family could trace their roots back to early Dutch settlers and Van Doren’s father decided to move the family to Urbana, ostensibly for the better opp