In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
-- Carl Clinton Van Doren
   
Carl Clinton Van Doren   Name:
Carl Clinton Van Doren
Type:
Critic
Nationality:
American
Birth:
September 10, 1885
Death:
July 18, 1950
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