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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

~Carl Clinton Van Doren

Topics: Conformity Credulity Man Race Sheep While Wolves

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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.

~Carl Clinton Van Doren

Topics: After Away Borders Closer Conquest Cooper Cultivation Death East Fiction Generation Ground Main Marked Mississippi Nearly New Tendency Too

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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.

~Carl Clinton Van Doren

Topics: Almost American Born Cabin Coincidence Cooper Died Exactly Fiction First Great He His Life Limits Mark Mere Passing Period Power Produced Serial Stage Sympathy Through Tom Uncle Which Year

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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

Topics: Above Actual Brought Curious Experience Facts Great Great Power His Imagination Knowledge Learning Literature Much Own Power Sound Subject Task Whaling Which Worked

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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

Topics: Continue Cooper Did Few Fiction Followers Had Land Mind Mississippi Popular Prairie Region Reports Strange Travellers West Which Work

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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

~Carl Clinton Van Doren

Topics: Hard Harder Write Yes

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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

~Carl Clinton Van Doren

Topics: Adventure Although Antiquated Begun Course Had Large Literature Most Novel Part Rendered Seem Service Stigma Tales Word

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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

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

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Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

~Carl Clinton Van Doren

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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

~Carl Clinton Van Doren

Topics: Against Before Both Broken Charges Common Discovery Down Except Fiction Fitted Had Honest Most Nothing Novel Older Pleased Pleasure Taught Two Use

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: September 10th, 1885

Died: July 18th, 1950

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