Henry Seidel Canby
Henry Seidel Canby (September 6, 1878 – April 5, 1961) was a critic, editor, and Yale University professor.
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Biography
A scion of a Quaker family that arrived in Wilmington, Delaware, around 1740 and grew to regional prominence through milling and business affairs,[1] Henry Seidel Canby was a son of Edward T. Canby.[2] Canby was born in Wilmington, and attended Wilmington Friends School. He graduated from Yale in 1899, then taught at the university until becoming a professor in 1922.
Following a four-year stint as the editor of the Literary Review of the New York Evening Post, Canby became one of the founders and editors of the Saturday Review of Literature, serving as the last until 1936. His notes on the work of Vilfredo Pareto in 1933 in the Saturday Review helped launch the Pareto vogue of the 1930s.[3]
He was the father of Edward T. Canby (1912-1998), a noted reviewer, radio-show host, folklorist and early advocate of electronic music.[4]
Works
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- Education by Violence (1919)
- Everyday Americans (1920)
- Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism (1922)
- Better Writing (1926)
- American Estimates (1929)
- Classic Americans (1931)
- The Age of Confidence (1934)
- Seven Years' Harvest (1936)
- The Gothic Age of the American College (1936)
- Thoreau (1939)
- The Brandywine (1941; part of the Rivers of America Series)
- Whitman (1943)
- American Memoir (1947)
- Introduction to Favorite Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1947)
- Turn West, Turn East: Mark Twain and Henry James (1951)
Selected articles
- "Fiction and Fact," The Dial, Vol. XLIX (1910)
- "Writing English," Harper's Magazine, Vol. CXXVIII (1914)
- "The American Mind," The Century, Vol. XCVIII (1919)
- "Educating by Tradition," The Century, Vol. XCVIII (1919)
- "Radical America," The Century, Vol. XCVIII (1919)
- "Our Erratic Idealism", The Century, Vol. XCIX (1919)
- "Literature in a Democracy," The Century, Vol. XCIX (1920)
- "Religion and Democracy," The Century, Vol. XCIX (1920)
- "The Sins of Book Reviewers," The Bookman, Vol. LIV (1921)
- "The American Tradition in Literature," Saturday Review, Vol. XXII (1940)
References
- ↑ "Collecting Delaware Books: Henry Seidel Canby and "His" People"
- ↑ "Turmoil in New Mexico, 1846-1868" By William A. Keleher
- ↑ Joseph V. Femia & Alasdair J. Marshall, eds., Vilfredo Pareto: Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries (Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2012). Lawrence Henderson, George Homans, and Bernard DeVoto also played a role in promoting interest in Pareto's work.
- ↑ NYT obit of Edward T. Canby
External links
- Works by Henry Seidel Canby at Project Gutenberg
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- Works by Henry Seidel Canby at Hathi Trust
- Works by Henry Seidel Canby at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Information Please Almanac article on Henry Seidel Canby
- Hervey Allen Papers, 1831-1965, SC.1952.01, Special Collections Department, University of Pittsburgh
| Awards and achievements | ||
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| Preceded by | Cover of Time Magazine 19 May 1924 |
Succeeded by Sir James Craig |
