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Cleanth Brooks

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American literary critic and academic

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Cleanth Brooks
Literature
#51
World Rank
#187
Historical Rank
#26
USA Rank
Literary Criticism
#3
World Rank
#7
Historical Rank
#2
USA Rank
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According to Wikipedia, Cleanth Brooks 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 and Modern Poetry and the Tradition , argue for the centrality of ambiguity and paradox as a way of understanding poetry. With his writing, Brooks helped to formulate formalist criticism, emphasizing "the interior life of a poem" and codifying the principles of close reading.

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