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US US-kylobm TMC-RG3-ii-UZ-Van-Doren
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Titles by: Van Doren, Mark
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(1894-1972)
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Mark Van Doren won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1940 for his 1939 volume of collected poems and was a literary critic and professor. He had a profound effect on Merton as a professor of English at Columbia University in New York. Van Doren was at Columbia from 1920 to 1959. Merton stayed in contact with Van Doren after leaving Columbia and after entering the monastery. Van Doren selected the pieces for Merton's «Thirty Poems» and helped get them published. Merton also knew Van Doren's wife, Dorothy, and sons Charles and John. Mark Van Doren visited Merton at Gethsemani a few times and met once with him in Louisville. (Source: «The Road to Joy», p. 3.)
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This series contains works regarding Merton under the first-named author, creator, editor, etc., of a title. Subseries are arranged by dates and titles.
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First and Last Name:
Mark Van Doren