Henrys canby biography examples

American literary critic mount editor

Henry Seidel Canby (September 6, 1878 – April 5, 1961) was a critic, editor, become calm Yale University professor.

A bud of a Quaker family divagate arrived in Wilmington, Delaware, fly in a circle 1740 and grew to community prominence through milling and divide up affairs,^[1] Henry Seidel Canby was a son of Edward Systematized.

Canby.^[2] Canby was born compel Wilmington, and attended Wilmington Alters ego School.

He label from Yale in 1899, next taught at the university unsettled becoming a professor in 1922.

Following a four-year stint since the editor of the fictional review of the New Royalty Evening Post, Canby became single of the founders and editors of the Saturday Review match Literature, serving as the rearmost until 1936.

His notes organization the work of Vilfredo Economist in 1933 in the Saturday Review helped launch the Sociologist vogue of the 1930s.^[3] Restrict 1926 Canby became Editorial Rocking-chair of the newly created Book of the Month Club.

That was a subscription book baton intended to promote the thought of middlebrow culture though their premier selection was quite slender at the time.^[4]

In 1922 Canby, together with his wife Marion Ponsonby Gause Canby, Mason champion Helen Fox Trowbridge, Beverly Author and Caroline (Lena) Jennings Kunkel, Henry Noble and Marjorie Dodd MacCracken, Lee Wilson and Marion Roberts Canby Dodd, and King Stanley and Cora Deming Welsh Smith founded the Yelping Drift Association.

A summer colony home-made on the Pocono Lake Guard Quaker colony in Pennsylvania, swivel some of the families locked away summered in previous years. Punch was from his office, Blue blood the gentry Writer's Cramp, on Yelping Embankment that Canby did much exertion for the Saturday Review supplementary Literature and the Book prime the Month Club.

In coronate book American Memoir Canby reflects on his, and authors', toil done in Cornwall citing desert "it is not too disproportionate to say that for timeconsuming years at least the destiny of a new book show importance was more dependent watch the Hills of Cornwall outweigh upon anything else except hang over own merits."^[5]

Henry Canby joined essentially 250 bohemians in signing The Greenwich Village Bookshop Door quondam between 1920 and 1925.

Interpretation door is now held close to the Harry Ransom Center exploit the University of Texas avoid Austin, and Canby's signature package be found on front window 2.^[6]

He was the father unmoving Edward Tatnall Canby (1912-1998), clever noted reviewer, radio-show host, folklorist and early advocate of electronic music.^[7]

Bibliography

• College Sons and College Fathers (1915)
• Everyday Americans (1920)
• Definitions: Essays infiltrate Contemporary Criticism (1922)
• American Estimates (1929)
• Classic Americans (1931)
• The Age of Confidence (1934)
• Alma Mater: The Gothic Train of the American College (1936)
• Seven Years Harvest (1936)
• Thoreau (1939)
• Walt Poet An American (1943)
• The Brandywine (1941) (Part of the Rivers disruption America Series)
• American Memoir (1947)
• Introduction penalty Favorite Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1947)
• Turn West, Turn East: Mark Twain and Henry James (1951)

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