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Mark Van Doren

1894 - 1972

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Mark Van Doren (June 13, 1894 – December 10, 1972) 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 Chambers, and Beat Generation writers such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mark Van Doren has received more than 352,665 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Mark Van Doren is the 6,666th most popular writer, the 13,274th most popular biography from United States and the 971st most popular American Writer.

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  • 15

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  • 1.94

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  • 3.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Drum-Taps
2018
Leaves of Grass
American poetry, Children's poetry, American, Poetry
These are selected poems of Walt Whitman, the great poet and author of one book: "Leaves of Grass". Walt Whitman was the poet of the self and the poet of Democracy with a large "D"". The theme of the poems in Walt Whitman's book is man's all encompassing self and its relationship to the the world and the universe. A sample of Walt's songs: One's self I sing, a simple, separate person. Yet utter the word: Democracy. The word En Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, not the face alone, nor the soul alone, nor the body alone, but the form complete is worthier far. Of Man and Woman I sing. The Modern Man I sing. I project the history of the future.
1868
Complete prose works
1881
The correspondence
Correspondence, American Poets, Poets, correspondence
106 p. ; 23 cm
1958
Leaves of Grass
Manuscripts, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Gay poets
**Leaves of Grass** is a poetry collection by American poet Walt Whitman. First published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and rewriting *Leaves of Grass*, revising it multiple times until his death. There have been held to be either six or nine individual editions of Leaves of Grass, the count varying depending on how they are distinguished.[2] This resulted in vastly different editions over four decades—the first edition being a small book of twelve poems, and the last, a compilation of over 400. (Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass))
1855
Leaves of Grass
2018

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Mark Van Doren ranks 6,666 out of 7,302. Before him are Greil Marcus, Édouard Louis, Joel Surnow, Thomas Brussig, Eugene Vodolazkin, and Kevin Poulsen. After him are Padma Sachdev, Walter Mosley, Muhsin al-Ramli, Tim Kring, Leonard Maltin, and James Kelman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Mark Van Doren ranks 264. Before him are Walter Byron, Jimmy McHugh, Warren William, Beatrice Lillie, Fred Allen, and Bud Jamison. After him are H. V. Evatt, and Harry B. Liversedge. Among people deceased in 1972, Mark Van Doren ranks 266. Before him are William Boyd, Carl W. Stalling, Clyde McPhatter, Martin Schröttle, Lorenzo Wright, and Tor Lund. After him are Dorothy Dalton, Jimmy Douglas, Padraic Colum, Jerome Cowan, Carl Hayden, and Joi Lansing.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mark Van Doren ranks 13,274 out of 20,380. Before him are Errol Morris (1948), Chris Pontius (1974), Lucas Grabeel (1984), Peter Hermann (1967), Carl Shy (1908), and Earl Palmer (1924). After him are Ruth Buzzi (1936), Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (1922), Meredith Colket (1878), Polly Ann Young (1908), Michael Fincke (1967), and Walter Mosley (1952).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Mark Van Doren ranks 971. Before him are Deborah Feldman (1986), Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882), George Clayton Johnson (1929), Greil Marcus (1945), Joel Surnow (1955), and Kevin Poulsen (1965). After him are Walter Mosley (1952), Tim Kring (1957), Leonard Maltin (1950), Gertrude Atherton (1857), Ed Bradley (1941), and Pat Cadigan (1953).

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