Now the Sky & Other Poems

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1928.

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Hardcover. First edition. Fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with slight age-toning at the spine, and a very small chip at the crown. A very uncommon book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and critic.

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Item #88024 Now the Sky & Other Poems. 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