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Cleanth Brooks (/ ˈ k l iː æ n θ / 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.
9 mag 2024 · Cleanth Brooks (born Oct. 16, 1906, Murray, Ky., U.S.—died May 10, 1994, New Haven, Conn.) was an American teacher and critic whose work was important in establishing the New Criticism, which stressed close reading and structural analysis of literature.
Cleanth Brooks was one of 20 th century America’s most respected literary critics and influential literature professors. With Robert Penn Warren, his classmate and longtime colleague, Brooks wrote the classic college textbooks Understanding Poetry (1938) and Understanding Fiction (1943).
18 mar 2016 · Cleanth Brooks, an eminent New Critic, advocates the centrality of paradox as a way of understanding and interpreting poetry, in his best-known works, The Language of Paradox, The Well Wrought Urn (1947) and Modern Poetry and the Tradition (1939).
27 ott 2021 · Cleanth Brooks (b. 1906–d. 1994), after T. S. Eliot and I. A. Richards, was arguably among the most influential modern literary critics. He is commonly identified as the representative American “New Critic,” who was subject accordingly both to high praise and to relentless attack through nearly seven decades.
Cleanth Brooks (October 16, 1906 - May 10, 1994) was an influential American literary critic and professor. He is best known for his contributions to New Criticism in the mid-twentieth century and for revolutionizing the teaching of poetry in American higher education.
Cleanth Brooks was born in Murray, Kentucky, on 16 October 1906, and died in New Haven on 10 May 1994. He entered Vanderbilt University in 1924; there he found himself in the midst of the agrarian writers known as the Fugitives, prominent among them John Crowe Ransom and Donald Davidson.
