The Country Year

New York: William Sloane Associates, (1946).

Price: $55.00

Hardcover. First edition. Bookplate on front fly, small stain on front pastedown, else fine in near fine, spine-tanned dustwrapper with some chipping to the spinal extremities. Signed by the author.

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Item #35426 The Country Year. Mark VAN DOREN.

Mark Van Doren
birth name: Mark Van Doren
born: 6/13/1894
died: 12/10/1972

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American poet, writer, and eminent teacher. He upheld the writing of verse in traditional forms throughout a lengthy period of experiment in poetry. As a teacher at Columbia University (N.Y.) for 39 years (1920-59), he exercised a profound influence on generations of students. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore