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Cleanth Brooks
KLEE
-anth
(October 16, 1906 ? May 10, 1994) was an
American
literary critic
and
teacher
.
Brooks was born in
Murray, Kentucky
. He went to
college
at
Vanderbilt University
and
Tulane University
. He was a
Rhodes Scholar
at
Oxford University
.
[1]
He wrote
Understanding Poetry
in 1938 with
poet
Robert Penn Warren
. This helped to begin a way of looking at
literature
that is called "
The New Criticism
." He taught at
Yale University
from 1946 until 1975.
[1]
- 1936.
An Approach to Literature
- 1938.
Understanding Poetry
- 1939.
Modern Poetry and the Tradition
- 1943.
Understanding Fiction
- 1947.
The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
- 1957.
Literary Criticism: A Short History
- 1963.
William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country
- 1964.
The Hidden God: Studies in Hemingway, Faulkner, Yeats, Eliot, and Warren
- 1971.
A Shaping Joy: Studies in the Writer's Craft
- 1973.
American Literature: The Makers and the Making
- 1978.
William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond
- 1983.
William Faulkner: First Encounters
- 1985.
The Language of the American South
- 1991.
Historical Evidence and the Reading of Seventeenth-Century Poetry
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