Cleanth Brooks

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Cleanth Brooks was an influential American literary critic and scholar best known for shaping and promoting New Criticism through his close readings and theoretical writings on poetry.

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instanceOf New Criticism theorist
academic
author
human
literary critic
scholar
almaMater Tulane University
University of Oxford
Vanderbilt University
awardReceived Guggenheim Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities Jefferson Lecture
coAuthor Robert Penn Warren
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1906-10-16
dateOfDeath 1994-05-10
editorOf The Southern Review
educatedAt Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford
employer Louisiana State University
Yale University
era 20th-century literary criticism
familyName Brooks
fieldOfWork literary criticism
poetry analysis
gender male
givenName Cleanth
influenced 20th-century poetry criticism
American literary studies
knownFor close reading of poetry
emphasis on the autonomy of the literary text
theoretical writings on New Criticism
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement New Criticism
name Cleanth Brooks
nationality American
notableWork Modern Poetry and the Tradition
The Well Wrought Urn
Understanding Fiction
Understanding Poetry
occupation editor
literary critic
professor
placeOfBirth Murray, Kentucky, United States
linked to: Murray, Kentucky
placeOfBurial Murray, Kentucky, United States
linked to: Murray, Kentucky
placeOfDeath New Haven, Connecticut, United States
spouse Edith Amy Blanchard
taught Louisiana State University English Department
Yale University English Department

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New Criticism keyFigure Cleanth Brooks
Southern Renaissance hasNotableAuthor Cleanth Brooks
I. A. Richards influenced Cleanth Brooks
The Well Wrought Urn author Cleanth Brooks
Cleanth Brooks name Cleanth Brooks
Hugh Kenner doctoralAdvisor Cleanth Brooks
Charles Frankel Prize hasRecipient Cleanth Brooks
Fugitive Poets notableMember Cleanth Brooks
Southern Agrarians member Cleanth Brooks