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Cleanth Brooks

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Death30 years ago
Date of birth October 16,1906
Zodiac sign Libra
Born Murray
Kentucky
United States
Date of died May 10,1994
DiedNew Haven
Connecticut
United States
Job Literary critic
Education Exeter College
Tulane University
Vanderbilt University
McTyeire School
Oxford
Awards Jefferson Lecture
Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada
SpousEdith Amy Blanchord
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Understanding Poetry
William Faulkner
Understanding Fiction
Modern poetry and the tradition
Modern rhetoric
An approach to literature
The hidden God
The language of the American South
Literary Criticism: A Short History
Community, religion, and literature
Historical evidence and the reading of seventeenth-century poetry
A shaping joy
On the prejudices, predilections, and firm beliefs of William Faulkner
American Literature
Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren: A Literary Correspondence
Fundamentals of Good Writing: A Handbook of Modern Rhetoric
The relation of the Alabama-Georgia dialect to the provincial dialects of Great Britain
Tragic themes in Western literature
The scope of fiction
Understanding Drama: Twelve Plays
Cleanth Brooks and Allen Tate
Instructor's Manual for Understanding Poetry
Close Reading: The Reader
The Well Wrought Urn
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Cleanth Brooks was an American literary critic and professor. He is best known for his contributions to New Criticism in the mid-20th century and for revolutionizing the teaching of poetry in American higher education.

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