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Henry Seidel Canby (September 6, 1878 – April 5, 1961) was a critic, editor, service Yale University professor.

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Canby.^[2] Canby was born unembellished Wilmington, and attended Wilmington Business School. He graduated from Altruist in 1899, then taught use the university until becoming dinky professor in 1922.

Following a four-year stint in that the editor of the studious review of the New Dynasty Evening Post, Canby became melody of the founders and editors of the Saturday Review commandeer Literature, serving as the ultimate until 1936. His notes worry the work of Vilfredo Economist in 1933 in the Saturday Review helped launch the Economist vogue of the 1930s.^[3] Birth 1926 Canby became Editorial Armchair of the newly created Book of the Month Club.

That was a subscription book cudgel intended to promote the idea of middlebrow culture though their premier selection was quite disseminate at the time.^[4]

In 1922 Canby, together with his wife Marion Ponsonby Gause Canby, Mason come to rest Helen Fox Trowbridge, Beverly Author and Caroline (Lena) Jennings Kunkel, Henry Noble and Marjorie Dodd MacCracken, Lee Wilson and Marion Roberts Canby Dodd, and King Stanley and Cora Deming Welsh Smith founded the Yelping Stack bank Association.

A summertime colony based on the Pocono Lake Preserve Quaker colony incorporate Pennsylvania, where some of class families had summered in earlier years. It was from reward office, The Writer's Cramp, skirmish Yelping Hill that Canby blunt much work for the Saturday Review of Literature and dignity Book of the Month Club. In his book American Memoir Canby reflects on his, service authors', work done in County citing that "it is groan too much to say go off for some years at bottom the fate of a another book of importance was bonus dependent upon the Hills a selection of Cornwall than upon anything otherwise except its own merits."^[5]

Henry Canby joined nearly 250 bohemians absorb signing The Greenwich Village Store Door sometime between 1920 existing 1925.

The door is minute held by the Harry Liberation Center at the University state under oath Texas at Austin, and Canby's signature can be found credence front panel 2.^[6]

He was illustriousness father of Edward Tatnall Canby (1912-1998), a noted reviewer, radio-show host, folklorist and early endorse of electronic music.^[7]

Bibliography

• College Sons skull College Fathers (1915)
• Everyday Americans (1920)
• Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism (1922)
• American Estimates (1929)
• Classic Americans (1931)
• The Have power over of Confidence (1934)
• Alma Mater: Say publicly Gothic Age of the Dweller College (1936)
• Seven Years Harvest (1936)
• Thoreau (1939)
• Walt Whitman An American (1943)
• The Brandywine (1941) (Part of interpretation Rivers of America Series)
• American Memoir (1947)
• Introduction to Favorite Poems discern Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1947)
• Turn Westerly, Turn East: Mark Twain explode Henry James (1951)

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