Male : Poet, Novelist & Critic. Younger brother of Carl Van Doren. Married Dorothy Graffe in 1922

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Hope, Illinois

Date of Birth : 1894 Date of Death : 1972 Age : 78

Other Work : Professor of English at Columbia Univ 1920-59

Education : Universities of Illinois & Columbia

1916-1925
Henry David Thoreau : A Critical Guide (1916 Houghton Mifflin)
The Poetry of John Dryden (1920)
Spring Thunder & Other Poems (1924)
American and British Literature Since 1890 (1925) - with Carl Van Doren

1926-1930
7 P.M. & Other Poems (1926)
Edwin Arlington Robinson (1927)
(Ed) Samuel Sewall's Diary (1927)
(Ed) A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits of General George Washington by
Mason Locke Weems (1927)
Now the Sky & Other Poems (1928)
(Ed) An Anthology of World Poetry (1928)
(Ed) The Travels of William Bartram (1928)
(Ed) Nick of the Woods, or The Jibbenainosay - A Tale of Kentucky by Robert Montgomery Bird
(1928)
(Ed) A Journey to the Land of Eden & Other Papers by William Byrd (1928)
(Ed) An Autobiography of America (1929)
(Ed) Correspondence of Aaron Burr and His Daughter Theodosia (1929)
(Ed) A Junior Anthology of World Poetry (1929) - with Garibaldi M Lapolla
(Ed) The Life of Sir William Phips by Cotton Mather (1929)
(In) The Best Poems of 1930 (selected by Thomas Moult) (1930 Cape)

1931-1940
Jonathan Gentry (1931)
Dick and Tom : Tales of Two ponies (1931) - Juvenile
Dick and Tom in Town (1932) - Juvenile
(Ed) The World's Best Poems (1932) - with Garibaldi M Lapolla
(Ed) American Poets 1630-1930 (1932)
(Ed) The Oxford Book of American Prose (1932)
A Winter Diary & Other Poems (1935)
The Transients (1935)
(In) The Best Poems of 1935 (selected by Thomas Moult) (1935 Cape)
The Last Look & Other Poems (1937)
Shakespeare (1939 Holt)
Studies in Metaphysical Poetry : Two Essays with a Bibliography (1939) - with Theodore Spencer
The Transparent Tree (1940) - Juvenile
Collected Poems 1922-1938 (1940) - Pulitzer Prize
Windless Cabins (1940 Holt)
(Ed) A Listener's Guide to Invitation to Learning 1940-2 (1940-2) - 2 vols

1941-1945
Invitation to Learning (1941) - with Huntington Cairns and Allen Tate
The Mayfield Deer (1941 Holt)
The New Invitation to Learning (1942)
The Private Reader : selected Articles and Reviews (1942 Holt)
Our Lady Peace & Other War Poems (1942)
Liberal Education (1942)
Tilda (1943 Holt)
(Ed) The Night of the Summer Solstice & Other Stories of the Russian War (1943 Holt)
The Seven Sleepers & Other Poems (1944 Holt)
The Country New Year (1946 Sloane, NY)
(Ed) Walt Whitman (1945)

1946-1950
The Noble Voice : A Study of Ten Great Poems (1946)
(Ed) The Portable Emerson (1946)
The Careless Clock : Poems about Children in the Family (1947)
New Poems (1948 Wm Sloan, NY)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1949)
The Short Stories (1950)
(Ed) Selected Poetry by William Wordsworth (1950)
The Witch of Ramoth & Other Tales (1950 Maple Press, US)
Humanity Unlimited : Twelve Sonnets (1950)

1951-1960
(Ed) Introduction to Poetry (1951)
In That Far Land (1951)
Mortal Summer (1953)
Spring Birth & Other Poems (1953)
Nobody Say a Word & Other Stories (1953)
Selected Poems (1954 Holt, NY)
(Ed) Riverside Poetry : 48 New Poems by 27 Poets (1956) - et al
Home with Hazel (1957)
Don Quixote's Profession (1958)
The Autobiography (1958)
The Last Days of Lincoln (1959) - play
Morning Worship (1960)

After 1961
The Happy Critic & Other Essays (1961 Hill & Wang, NY)
Collected Stories (1962-8) - 3 vols
Collected & New Poems 1924-1963 (1963)
The Narrative Poems (1964)
The Dialogues of Archibald MacLeish and Van Doren (1964) - Edited by Warren V Busch
Three Plays (1966)
(Ed) One Hundred Poems (1967 Hill & Wang, NY)
The Shining Place : New Poems (1969)
Carl Sandburg (1969 Library of Congress)
Good Morning : Last Poems (1973)
In the Beginning Love : Dialogues on the Bible (1973) - with Maurice Samuel
The Book of Praise : Dialogues on the Psalms (1975) - with Maurice Samuel

READING
Dorothy Van Doren : The Professor and I (1958)