All Carl Clinton Van Doren Quotes
- 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… Adventure
- The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity. Conformity
- 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… Both
- It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it. Danger
- 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… Affair
- 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… Almost Exactly
- The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies. Anthologies
- 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… Been
- Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to. Hard
- 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… Already Marked
- 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… Actual
- 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… Continued