Cleanth Brooks

Cleanth Brooks  (October 16, 1906 – May 10, 1994) was an American literary critic and teacher.

Brooks was born in Murray, Kentucky. He went to college at Vanderbilt University and Tulane University. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.

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.

Books
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

Category:1906 births
Category:1994 deaths
Category:Writers from Kentucky