Mark Van Doren

Biography

Mark Van Doren (1894 –1972) was an influential literary critic, poet, and scholar who taught at Columbia University for almost four decades. He was literary editor of The Nation, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Collected Poems 1922–1938.

See Work

POETRY / Winter 1952

She Lives With Me

By Mark Van Doren
POETRY / Autumn 1936

The Funeral

By Mark Van Doren

Four hundred dollars beat for him Like a still heart within the house,
Midway the wall whereon a clock Made nightly music for the mouse.

Spring 1938

Literature and Propaganda

By Mark Van Doren
Spring 1930

Big and Little Poetry

By Mark Van Doren
Autumn 1936

Proper Clay

By Mark Van Doren