Cleanth Brooks (1906–1994)
Auteur van The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
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Cleanth Brooks was born in Murray, Kentucky on October 16, 1906. He was educated at Vanderbilt, Tulane, and Oxford universities. From 1932 to 1947, he taught English at Louisiana State University and then moved on to Yale University. At Yale, he helped to articulate the principles of New Criticism, toon meer which dominated literary studies in the 1940s and 1950s. He coedited the journal Southern Review with Robert Penn Warren. He also wrote several titles in collaboration with Warren, including Understanding Poetry and Understanding Fiction. A third work Understanding Drama was written in collaboration with Robert Heilman. His other works included The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry and Modern Poetry and the Tradition. He died on May 10, 1994. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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On the Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner: Essays (Southern Literary Studies) (1987) 14 exemplaren
American Literature: The Makers and the Making Book d 1914 to the Present (American Literature (St Martins)) (1974) 8 exemplaren
American Literature: The Makers and the Making, Beginnings to 1826/Book A (American Literature (St Martins)) (1974) 3 exemplaren
The Relation of the Alabama-Georgia Dialect to the Provincial Dialects of Great Britain (1972) 2 exemplaren
La struttura della poesia 2 exemplaren
Poetisk struktur 2 exemplaren
Rare Cleanth Brooks / Well Wrought Urn Studies in the Structure of Poetry 1st ed 1947 (1947) 1 exemplaar
Understanding Poetry 4th (fourth) by Brooks, Cleanth, Warren, Robert Penn (1976) Paperback 1 exemplaar
American Literature Makers & the making 1 exemplaar
Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond 1 exemplaar
The Southern review 1 exemplaar
The American Scholar 1981-3 Summer 1 exemplaar
Conversations on the craft of poetry 1 exemplaar
Importance of place in Southern literature 1 exemplaar
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- Brooks, Cleanth
- Geboortedatum
- 1906-10-16
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1994-05-10
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- USA
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- Murray, Kentucky, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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- cancer of the esophagus
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- Murray, Kentucky, USA (birth)
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
New Haven, Connecticut, USA - Opleiding
- Vanderbilt University (BA ∙ 1928)
Tulane University (MA | 1929)
Exeter College, Oxford University (BA | 1931 | BLitt | 1932)
McTyeire School - Beroepen
- professor
literary critic
editor - Relaties
- Warrren, Robert Penn (friend)
Tate, Allen (friend)
Ransom, John Crowe (friend)
Lytle, Andrew (friend)
Davidson, Donald (teacher)
Kenner, Hugh (student) (toon alle 9)
Lowell, Robert (student)
McLuhan, Marshall (friend)
Mims, Edwin (teacher) - Organisaties
- Fellowship of Southern Writers (1987)
The Southern Review (co-founder, editor-in-chief)
American Association of University Professors
Athenaeum
Louisiana State University
Yale University (toon alle 11)
Kenyon School of English
Member of advisory committee for Boswell Papers
Library of Congress
Modern Language Association of America
Bread Loaf School of English - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Jefferson Lecture (1985)
Royal Society of Literature
Guggenheim fellowship
Senior fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1966)
National Institute of Arts and Letters (1970) (toon alle 9)
American Philosophical Society (1973)
Phi Beta Kappa
Rhodes Scholar
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OK, OK, so I'm doing my time-dishonored 'review way before finished' thing, here, but -- Wimsatt and Brooks give great attention to Plato and Aristotle before moving on. The coverage and discussion, at least in what I have read, is truly fine.