Henry Seidel Canby

Henry Seidel Canby 1878-1961, American editor and critic, b. Wilmington, Del., grad. Yale, 1899. He taught at Yale for over 20 years, achieving professorial rank in 1922. He established and edited (1920-24) the Literary Review of the New York Evening Post, afterward joining with others to found and edit (1924-36) the Saturday Review of Literature; Seven Years' Harvest (1936) is his intellectual diary culled from its files. His critical and literary works include Classic Americans (1931), Thoreau (1939), Whitman (1943), The Brandywine (1941), The Gothic Age of the American College (1936), and Turn West, Turn East: Mark Twain and Henry James (1951).

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.