Stark Young

Stark Young (October 11, 1881 – January 6, 1963) was an American professor, novelist, playwright, theater critic, essayist, short story writer, translator, essayist, memoirist, and painter of flowers and landscapes. He is best known for his 1934 novel So Red the Rose (novel) So Red the Rose. Quotes The history of any art is a history of man's states of mind and spirit, not of the objective world around him. To be ignorant of that is to be ignorant of the theater as an art, and leads to a mere muddle of resemblances and recognitions, a confusion between life and the theatre, contradictions about naturalness and artifice, and blindness to such ideas as require a new method or form to express them. The Theater Doran's modern readers' bookshelf George H. Doran Company 1927 https://books.google.com/books?id=wA4MgTkwTukC&pg=PA26 26 (168 pages) The most valuable thing in my college Latin courses was that they were under a Virginian from the University of Virginia, whose belief in this Culture of ancient Rome classic culture was inherited and profound and therefore contagious. The Pavilion: Of People and Times Remembered, of Stories and Places Scribner 1951 https://books.google.com/books?id=cG0kAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=virginian 141 (194 pages) Quotes about Stark Young Stark Young was a man of protean interests in the arts. Because of this breadth of interest, it is arguable whether his main achievement was in fiction or in criticism, since he excelled in both, but after immersing myself in Young's critical writings in the theater, I have come to the conclusion that Young was the finest American critic on the art of the theatre of the first half of this century ... V. T. Gutendorf, Stark Young:" A Critic for All Seasons" Southern Quarterly 24 4 1986 41 https://www.proquest.com/openview/1a72861ea0a047337b4a697d7415bea8/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=2029886 External links https://www.nytimes.com/1963/01/07/archives/stark-young-81-writer-is-dead-drama-critic-was-hailed-for-novel-so.html Stark Young, 81, Writer Is Dead; Drama Critic Was Hailed for Novel, 'So Red the Rose’ The New York Times January 7, 1963 p. 12 Stark Young Collection at the Harry Ransom Center Pilkington, John Stark Young: A Life in Letters and Art 1976 Texas State Historical Association https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/young-stark (updated 2019) Category:1881 births Category:1963 deaths Category:Academics from the United States Category:Columbia University alumni Category:Literary critics Category:Memoirists from the United States Category:Novelists from the United States Category:People from Mississippi Category:Playwrights from the United States Category:Theatre critics