It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

He was a long-time resident of Bridgewater Connecticut which built a town library wing in his name. Biography
Brooks was educated at Harvard University and graduated in 1908. As a student there he publiVan Wyck Brooksd his first book: a collection of poetry called Verses by Two Undergraduates co-written with his friend John Hall Wheelock.

Bridgewater Connecticut May 2 1963) was an American literary critic biographer and historian. Plainfield New Jersey February 16 1886; d. Van Wyck Brooks (b.