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 Mark Van Doren - Cornwall Hollow, NY Posted by:  neoc1
N 41° 53.844 W 073° 16.889
18T E 642554 N 4639812
The grave of Pulitzer Prize winning poet, writer, and scholar Mark Van Doren is located in Cornwall Hollow Cemetery on Cornwall Hollow Road in Cornwall, CT.
Waymark Code: WMW8FN
Location: Connecticut, United States
Date Posted: 07/24/2017
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The grave of Mark Van Doren is marked by a 3' high, lichen covered, granite headstone with a curved top which is inscribed:
MARK
VAN DOREN
JUNE 13, 1894
DEC. 10, 1972
DOROTHY
GRAFFE
HIS WIFE
MAY 2, 1896
FEB. 21, 1993
Description:
Mark Van Doren was born on June 13, 1894 in Hope, IL. He received a B.A. degree from the University of Illinois in Urbana in 1914 and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1920. In 1922 he married novelist Dorothy Graffe. Mark Van Doren was a professor of English at Columbia University from 1920 to 1959.
Mark Van Doren was a most influential thinker and writer. He was the literary editor of The Nation magazine from 1924 to 1928 and its film critic from 1935 to 1938. In 1940 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for Collected Poems 1922–1938. Throughout his life he was a prolific author of works of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction.
Wikipedia lists the following writings of Mark Van Doren:
Poetry:
Spring Thunder (1924)
An Anthology of World Poetry (1928)
Jonathan Gentry (1931)
The Oxford Book of American Prose (1932)
Winter Diary (1935)
Collected Poems 1922–1938 (1939)
The Mayfield Deer (1941)
Selected poems (1954)
The Last Days of Lincoln, a play in six scenes (1959)
Our Lady Peace
The Story-Teller
Collected and New Poems 1924–1963 (1963)
Mark Van Doren: 100 poems (1967)
Novels:
The Transients (1935)
Windless Cabins (1940)
Tilda (1943)
Short story collection:
Nobody Say a Word (1954)
Nonfiction:
Henry David Thoreau: A Critical Study (1916)
The Poetry of John Dryden (1920)
Introduction to Bartram's Travels (1928)
An Autobiography of America (1929)
American poets, 1630-1930 (1932)
American and British Literature Since 1890 (1939)
Shakespeare (1939)
The Liberal Education (1943)
The night of the summer solstice: & other stories of the Russian war (1943)
The Noble Voice (1946)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1949)
Introduction to Poetry (1951)
The Autobiography Of Mark Van Doren (1958)
The Happy Critic (1961)
Mark Van Doren on Great Poems of Western Literature. (1962)
Date of birth: 06/13/1894
Date of death: 12/10/1972
Area of notoriety: Literature
Marker Type: Headstone
Setting: Outdoor
Visiting Hours/Restrictions: Daylight Hours
Fee required?: No
Web site: [Web Link]
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