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The Well Wrought Urn. The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry is a 1947 collection of essays by Cleanth Brooks. It is considered a seminal text [1] in the New Critical school of literary criticism. The title contains an allusion to the fourth stanza of John Donne 's poem, "The Canonization", which is the primary subject of the ...
Cleanth Brooks (/ˈkliːænθ/ 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 ...
6 CLEANTH BROOKS: 'THE FORMALIST CRITIC' Herel are some articles of faith I could subscribe to: That literary criticism is a description and an evaluation of its object. That the primary concern of criticism is with the problem of unity -the kind of whole which the literary work forms or fails to form, and the rela
30 mag 2021 · New Criticism. New Criticism is a movement in 20th-century literary criticism that arose in reaction to those traditional “extrinsic” approaches that saw a text as making a moral or philosophical statement or as an outcome of social, economic, political, historical, or biographical phenomena. New Criticism holds that a text must be ...
Cleanth Brooks, one of the major figures of New Criticism, illustrated these facets of the school in his works like The Well Wrought Urn (1947) and Understanding Poetry (1938). He has been acknowledged by many as the forbearer of New Criticism. In The Well Wrought Urn, he differentiated between the poetic language and the ordinary speech.
Cleanth Brooks articulated most forcefully the new role assigned to irony when he described it as ‘the most general term we have for the kind of qualification which the various elements in a context receive from the context’.
克林斯·布鲁克斯（Cleanth Brooks，1906-1994），美国著名的文学批评家，新批评派的代表人物之一，形式主义批评理论的创立者。任教于耶鲁大学，曾为美国高等教育中的诗歌教学变革做出过突出贡献。代表作有《现代诗歌与传统》（1939）和《精致的瓮》（1947）。
