Literary Scholar and Professor

R. V. Young

1 article 1998

R. V. Young is a scholar of English literature and a professor known for his work on Renaissance poetry and literary criticism. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 1998 with a piece on Black Mountain College and its cultural legacy.

THE LESSON OF BLACK MOUNTAIN

August 31, 1998 · Magazine, Books and Arts

Black Mountain College, that utopian experiment in higher education and communal living, lasted only a little more than two decades: from 1933 to 1956. Yet even now, the college continues to fascinate, because so many of the persistent quandaries of academic life converged in that single North…