Van Wyck Brooks — From the Shadow of the Mountain
6 min readFeb 21, 2022
“Van Wyck began to look more closely at American literature, which resulted in his 1920 volume, The Ordeal of Mark Twain. He’d found his subject...”
In my previous two pieces about Van Wyck Brooks I’ve looked at his origins, and his monumental task in reminding the Americans of their country’s literary heritage.
