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The True and Solid Past
Dobell, Byron | January 29, 1949 issue

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The article focuses on the book "A Chilmark Miscellany," by Van Wyck Brooks. Business and poetry have been the concern of Van Wyck Brooks too. And, while it might be unfair to say of Brooks, "It came to him poetry; it went from him business," the inversion points to Brooks's own ambivalence. He is torn between two dreams of a Golden Age: the one of clipper ships, Salem fisheries, and woolen factories on the Connecticut, the other of bitter or of mellow genius. In "The Chilmark Miscellany" Brooks has collected from "The Opinions of Oliver Allston" the Notes from a Journal.

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CHILMARK Miscellany, A (Book); BROOKS, Van Wyck, 1886-1963; POETRY; BUSINESS in literature; AMBIVALENCE in literature; SENTIMENTALISM in literature
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