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Canby, Henry Seidel
Canby, Henry Seidel (1878–1961), former Yale professor of literature and editor of The Saturday Review of Literature. His books of literary and social criticism include Classic Americans (1931), studies of authors; Thoreau (1939) and Whitman (1943), biographies; The Brandywine (1941), an informal history of the river; and American Memoir (1947), including The Age of Confidence (1934), a survey of American life in the 1890s, and Alma Mater: The Gothic Age of the American College (1936). Family History (1945) deals with his ancestry; Turn West, Turn East (1951) is a study contrasting Mark Twain and Henry James.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Canby, Henry Seidel." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Canby, Henry Seidel." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-CanbyHenrySeidel.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Canby, Henry Seidel." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-CanbyHenrySeidel.html |
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