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 NERFINISHED
University of Oxford NERFINISHED
Vanderbilt University NERFINISHED
awardReceived Guggenheim Fellowship
National Endowment for the Humanities Jefferson Lecture NERFINISHED
coAuthor Robert Penn Warren NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1906-10-16
dateOfDeath 1994-05-10
editorOf The Southern Review NERFINISHED
educatedAt Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford
employer Louisiana State University NERFINISHED
Yale University
era 20th-century literary criticism
familyName Brooks NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork literary criticism
poetry analysis
gender male
givenName Cleanth NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
name Cleanth Brooks NERFINISHED
nationality American
notableWork Modern Poetry and the Tradition NERFINISHED
The Well Wrought Urn NERFINISHED
Understanding Fiction NERFINISHED
Understanding Poetry NERFINISHED
occupation editor
literary critic
professor
placeOfBirth Murray, Kentucky, United States NERFINISHED
placeOfBurial Murray, Kentucky, United States NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath New Haven, Connecticut, United States NERFINISHED
spouse Edith Amy Blanchard NERFINISHED
taught Louisiana State University English Department NERFINISHED
Yale University English Department NERFINISHED

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New Criticism keyFigure Cleanth Brooks
Southern Renaissance hasNotableAuthor Cleanth Brooks
I. A. Richards influenced Cleanth Brooks