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Carl Clinton Van Doren

American Critic

Born: Sep 10, 1885

Died: Jul 18, 1950

Adventure Although Between Great Life Man

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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. Carl Clinton Van Doren

Man Sheep Wolves While Conformity Race Credulity

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. Carl Clinton Van Doren

The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers. Carl Clinton Van Doren

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. Carl Clinton Van Doren

Life Entertained Detail Brought Tending Generally Had Idealized Remote Readers Were Been Historical Familiar Being Succeeded Teach Who

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies. Carl Clinton Van Doren

Rest Long First Run Writers Long Run Nowhere

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