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Biography

Name: Cleanth Brooks
Birth Date: October 16, 1906
Death Date: May 10, 1944
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of Cleanth Brooks
5,781 words, approx. 19 pages
No less a historian of criticism than René Wellek has called Cleanth Brooks "the critic of critics." Both senses of the phrase are appropriate descriptions of Brooks. Not only was he considered to be the critic of his generation of critics but...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Cleanth Brooks Information
3,114 words, approx. 10 pages
Cleanth Brooks (October 16, 1906 - May 10, 1994) was an influential American literary critic and professor. He is best known for his contributions to New Criticism in the mid-twentieth century and for revolutionizing the teaching of poetry in American...


News and Journals
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The Southern Review
A reminiscence for Cleanth Brooks. (writer and teacher)(Cleanth Brooks)
03/22/1995: 658 words, approx. 2 pages
Author and college professor Cleanth Brooks and fellow teacher Robert Penn Warren, founder of the 'Southern Review,' worked together in several universities such as Yale, where their joint collaboration entitled 'Understanding Poetry' was a popular textbook even before both joined the school's faculty. An...
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The Southern Review
Remembering Cleanth Brooks. (English literature teacher and author)(Cleanth Brooks)
03/22/1995: 953 words, approx. 3 pages
Cleanth Brooks, English professor and one-time editor of the 'Southern Review' publication of the Louisiana State University, was a traditionalist in both his lifestyle and poetry. He was a conservative Episcopalian and he disliked free verse. He was the co-author of the classic college...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Interview by Cleanth Brooks with William J. Spurlin
6,843 words, approx. 23 pages
In the following interview, Brooks and Spurlin discuss the response of other writers to the New Criticism.
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Critical Essay by Charlotte H. Beck and John P. Rhoades
5,579 words, approx. 19 pages
Below, Beck and Rhoades compare Brooks's New Criticism and Stanley Fish's Reader-Response theory.
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Critical Essay by John N. Duvall
5,131 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following essay, Duvall argues that the spiritual values required by Eliot's Modernism and Brooks's New Criticism are fraught with contradiction and lead to a static literature.
 


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