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Van Wyck Brooks

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Van Wyck Brooks (February 16, 1886 in Plainfield, New Jersey – May 2, 1963 in Bridgewater, Connecticut) was an American literary critic, biographer, and historian. [1]

41 relations: American Academy of Arts and Letters, American literature, Anecdote, Étienne Pivert de Senancour, Boston University, Bowdoin College, Bridgewater, Connecticut, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Ernest Fenollosa, Fairleigh Dickinson University, H. G. Wells, Harvard University, Helen Keller, Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Henry James, Herman Melville, John Addington Symonds, John French Sloan, John Hall Wheelock, Life (magazine), List of covers of Time magazine, Literary criticism, Long nineteenth century, Mark Twain, Maurice de Guérin, National Book Award, Northeastern Illinois University, Northwestern University, Plainfield, New Jersey, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize for History, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Second French Empire, Tufts University, Union College, University of Pennsylvania, Victorian architecture, Walt Whitman, Washington Irving, William Dean Howells.

American Academy of Arts and Letters

The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 250-member honor society; its goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art.

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American literature

American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and its preceding colonies (for specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United States).

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Anecdote

An anecdote is a brief, revealing account of an individual person or an incident.

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Étienne Pivert de Senancour

right Étienne-Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Ignace Pivert de Senancour (Paris, 16 November 1770 – Saint-Cloud, 10 January 1846), was a French essayist and philosopher, remembered primarily for his epistolary novel Obermann.

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Boston University

Boston University (commonly referred to as BU) is a private, non-profit, research university in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College is a private liberal arts college located in Brunswick, Maine.

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Bridgewater, Connecticut

Bridgewater is a town in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States.

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Ernest Fenollosa

Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (February 18, 1853 – September 21, 1908) was an American art historian of Japanese art, professor of philosophy and political economy at Tokyo Imperial University.

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Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh Dickinson University is a private, coeducational and nonsectarian university founded in 1942.

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H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Helen Keller

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer.

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Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Henri Frédéric Amiel (27 September 1821 – 11 May 1881) was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic.

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Henry James

Henry James, OM (–) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.

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John Addington Symonds

John Addington Symonds (5 October 1840 – 19 April 1893) was an English poet and literary critic.

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John French Sloan

John French Sloan (August 2, 1871 – September 7, 1951) was an American painter and etcher.

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John Hall Wheelock

John Hall Wheelock (September 9, 1886 – March 22, 1978) was an American poet.

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Life (magazine)

Life was an American magazine that ran regularly from 1883 to 1972 and again from 1978 to 2000.

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List of covers of Time magazine

Below are lists by decade of people appearing on the cover of ''Time'' magazine.

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Literary criticism

Literary criticism (or literary studies) is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.

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Long nineteenth century

The long 19th century is a term coined for the period between the years 1789 and 1914 by Russian literary critic and author Ilya Ehrenburg and British Marxist historian and author Eric Hobsbawm.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

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Maurice de Guérin

Georges-Maurice de Guérin (4 August 181019 July 1839) was a French poet.

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National Book Award

The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards.

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Northeastern Illinois University

Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) is a public state university located in Chicago, Illinois.

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Northwestern University

Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university based in Evanston, Illinois, United States, with other campuses located in Chicago and Doha, Qatar, and academic programs and facilities in Miami, Florida, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, California.

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Plainfield, New Jersey

Plainfield is a city in Union County, New Jersey, United States, known by its nickname as "The Queen City".

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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Pulitzer Prize for History

The Pulitzer Prize for History, administered by Columbia University, is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

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Second French Empire

The French Second Empire (Second Empire) was the Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870, between the Second Republic and the Third Republic, in France.

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Tufts University

Tufts University is a private research university incorporated in the municipality of Medford, Massachusetts, United States.

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Union College

Union College is a private, non-denominational liberal arts college located in Schenectady, New York, United States.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.

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Victorian architecture

Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century.

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Walt Whitman

Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist.

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Washington Irving

Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.

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William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters".

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Wyck_Brooks

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