Cleanth Brooks
American literary critic and academic
Cleanth Brooks KLEE-anth (October 16, 1906 – May 10, 1994) was an American literary critic and teacher.
Cleanth Brooks | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 16, 1906 Murray, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Died | May 10, 1994 (aged 87) |
| Education | McTyeire School Vanderbilt University Tulane University Exeter College, Oxford |
| Occupation(s) | Literary critic, academic |
| Spouse | Edith Amy Blanchord |
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]
Books
change- 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
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mitgang, Herbert (1994-05-12). "Cleanth Brooks, Yale Professor And Prominent New Critic, 87". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
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