Mark Van Doren, American poet, critic, and academic (born 1894)

Mark Van Doren

American poet (1894–1972)

Mark Van Doren was an American poet, writer and critic. He was a scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, where he inspired a generation of influential writers and thinkers including Thomas Merton, Robert Lax, John Berryman, Whittaker…