Cleanth Brooks ( KLEE-anth; October 16, 1906 – May 10, 1994) 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. His best-known works, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (1947) and Modern Poetry and the Tradition (1939), argue for the centrality of ambiguity and paradox as a way of understanding poetry. With his writing, Brooks helped to formulate formalist criticism, emphasizing "the interior life of a poem" (Leitch 2001) and codifying the principles of close reading. (From Wikipedia)
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Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994, contrib.: Literary Lectures Presented at the Library of Congress (Washington: Library of Congress, 1973), also contrib. by Thomas Mann, T. S. Eliot, R. P. Blackmur, Archibald Henderson, Irving Stone, John O'Hara, MacKinlay Kantor, John Crowe Ransom, Delmore Schwartz, John Hall Wheelock, Robert Hillyer, Pierre Emmanuel, Richard Wilbur, Leon Edel, Alain Bosquet, Hans Egon Holthusen, Erich Heller, Marc Slonim, Lin Yutang, Giose Rimanelli, Arturo Torres-Rioseco, Stephen Spender, Saul Bellow, Louis Untermeyer, Ralph Ellison, Karl Shapiro, and Reed Whittemore (page images at HathiTrust)
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Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994: Anniversary lectures, 1959 : Lectures presented under the auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. (Reference Dept., Library of Congress, 1959), also by Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund, Richard Wilbur, and Robert Hillyer (page images at HathiTrust)- Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994: The Percy letters (Louisiana state university press, 1944), also by Thomas Percy and David Nichol Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994: Poetry in the age of anxiety (University of Virginia Library, 1947], 1947) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994: The relation of the Alabama-Georgia dialect to the provincial dialects of Great Britain (Louisiana state university press, 1935) (page images at HathiTrust)
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