Stark Young
Stark Young (October 11, 1881 â 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.
Quotes
[edit]- 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. p. 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 classic culture was inherited and profound and therefore contagious.
- The Pavilion: Of People and Times Remembered, of Stories and Places. Scribner. 1951. p. 141. (194 pages)
Quotes about Stark Young
[edit]- 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, (1986) . "Stark Young:" A Critic for All Seasons"". Southern Quarterly 24 (4): 41.
External links
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- (January 7, 1963) "Stark Young, 81, Writer Is Dead; Drama Critic Was Hailed for Novel, 'So Red the Roseâ". The New York Times: p. 12.
- Stark Young Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
- Pilkington, John (1976). Stark Young: A Life in Letters and Art. Texas State Historical Association. (updated 2019)
