There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.

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.