The Mayfield Deer

E-377: Henry Holt and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1941. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Henry Holt & Co. , New York, 1941. 271 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Mark Van Doren discovered among several pages of an Illinois county history an incident which gave him the start to write "The Mayfield Deer." It may be legend, and if it is, it's a composite history of local myths in America. Mark Van Doren (June 13, 1894 – December 10, 1972) was an American poet, writer and a critic, apart from being 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, and Beat Generation writers such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac. He remained literary editor of The Nation, in New York City (1924–28) , and its film critic, 1935 to 1938. Amongst his notable works, many published in The Kenyon Review, include a collaboration with brother Carl Van Doren, American and British Literature since 1890 (1939) ; critical studies, The Poetry of John Dryden (1920) , Shakespeare (1939) , The Noble Voice (1945) and Nathaniel Hawthorne (1949) ; collections of poems including Jonathan Gentry (1931) ; stories; and the verse play The Last Days of Lincoln (1959). EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 271 pages .