Cleanth Brooks

Q: What Schools Are Affiliated With Cleanth Brooks

Cleanth Brooks is affiliated with the following schools: Vanderbilt University, Tulane University, Yale University

Why Is Cleanth Brooks Influential?

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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Cleanth Brooks's Published Works

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Published Papers

The well wrought urn : studies in the structure of poetry (1947) (338)
Literary Criticism: A Short History (1957) (170)
William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country (1977) (77)
Modern Poetry and the Tradition (1939) (73)
Understanding poetry : an anthology for college students (1938) (63)
Close Reading: The Reader (2002) (55)
American Literature the Makers and the Making (1973) (42)
The Ulysses Theme: A Study in the Adaptability of a Traditional Hero@@@Tragic Themes in Western Literature (1957) (29)
William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond (1978) (26)
The language of the American South (1985) (19)
Conversations on the craft of poetry (1961) (18)
An approach to literature (1964) (15)
The relation of the Alabama-Georgia dialect to the provincial dialects of Great Britain (1935) (14)
Tragic themes in Western literature (1957) (13)
Irony and "Ironic" Poetry (1948) (11)
The Scope Of Fiction (1960) (10)
William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: A Casebook (2003) (10)
A shaping joy: Studies in the writer's craft (1971) (9)
METAPHOR, PARADOX, AND STEREOTYPE (1965) (9)
Fundamentals of good writing : a handbook of modern rhetoric (1950) (9)
The Hidden God; Studies in Hemingway, Faulkner, Yeats, Eliot, and Warren (1965) (9)
Modern rhetoric : with readings (1949) (8)
On the prejudices, predilections, and firm beliefs of William Faulkner (1987) (8)
The hidden God (1963) (8)
William Faulkner: First Encounters (1963) (7)
Understanding drama : twelve plays (1948) (7)
The correspondence of Thomas Percy & William Shenstone (1977) (6)
Poems of Mr. John Milton (1953) (6)
Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren : a literary correspondence (1998) (5)
Understanding drama : eight plays (1945) (5)
Regionalism in American Literature (1960) (5)
The Correspondence of Thomas Percy and Richard Farmer (1948) (5)
The Percy Letters. (1948) (5)
D.H. Lawrence and Susan, His Cow (1973) (4)
In Search of the New Criticism (1983) (4)
In Conclusion: Literature and Culture in the Last Essays of Cleanth Brooks (1995) (3)
Historical evidence and the reading of seventeenth-century poetry (1991) (3)
Milton and Critical Re-Estimates (1951) (3)
Community, religion, and literature : essays (1995) (3)
Poems of Mr. John Milton: The 1645 Edition With Essays in Analysis (1968) (3)
An approach to literature : a collection of prose and verse with analyses and discussions (1939) (2)
The writer and his community : the twenty-first W. P. Ker memorial lecture delivered in the University of Glasgow, 15th October, 1965 (1968) (2)
The Limits of Poetry (1949) (2)
The writer and his community (1968) (2)
Literary Criticism: Marvell’s “Horatian Ode” (1963) (2)
Classical criticism : a short history (1970) (1)
American Literature The Makers and the Making Volume I (1973) (1)
Tragic themes in Western literature : seven essays (1960) (1)
Romantic criticism : a short history (1970) (1)
The Country Parson As Research Scholar: Thomas Percy, 1760-1770 (1959) (1)
Faulkner's People: A Complete Guide and Index to the Characters in the Fiction of William Faulkner.@@@Who's Who in Faulkner.@@@William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country. (1964) (1)
A New Approach to Literature: Understanding Drama (1946) (1)
An anthology of stories from the Southern review (1953) (1)
The correspondence of Thomas Percy & Richard Farmer (1946) (1)
Cleanth Brooks and Allen Tate: Collected Letters, 1933-1976 (1998) (1)
As I lay dying: A concordance to the novel (1977) (1)
This World and More: The Poetry of Richard Wilbur (1993) (1)
The Percy Letters. Volume VII. The Correspondence of Thomas Percy and William Shenstone (1980) (1)
Neo classical criticism : a short history (1970) (1)
James Joyce's the Boarding House (1988) (1)
Implications of an Organic Theory of Poetry (1958) (1)
An introduction to William Faulkner's fiction (1988) (1)
Critiques and essays in criticism, 1920-1948 : representing the achievement of modern British and American critics (1949) (1)
Esthetics, Apocrypha and the Actual (1986) (0)
What Understanding Drama Does (1947) (0)
Understanding William Faulkner's As I lay dying (1988) (0)
Comments on Thematic Arrangements of English Literature. (1977) (0)
Percy: Malone Letters (1945) (0)
T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection ABSTRACT (1994) (0)
James Olney: The Rhizome and the Flower: The Perennial Philosophy — Yeats and Jung (1982) (0)
34. Housman’s 1887 (SL1) (1944) (0)
Marvell’s ‘Horatian Ode’ (1946) (1969) (0)
Classical and neo-classical criticism (1978) (0)
Eve’s Awakening (1954) (1968) (0)
Collected Letters, 1933-1976 (1999) (0)
IN PURSUIT OF COLERIDGE. KATHLEEN COBURN. (1979) (0)
From New Criticism to Faulkner--An Interview with Cleanth Brooks (1985) (0)
Faulkner's Treatment of the Racial Problem (1969) (0)
"... Because Richness Is the Point". A Conversation with Cleanth Brooks (1983) (0)
Romantic and modern criticism (1978) (0)
Chapter III The Stylistics of Deviance in Knntaka ' s Vakroktijivita (0)
The Unconscious Brooksians@@@The Language of the American South (1988) (0)
The Sense of Community in Yoknapatawpha Fiction (1978) (0)
Anniversary lectures, 1959 (1959) (0)
The Unity of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus (1966) (1969) (0)
Queen or Handmaid of the Arts (1957) (0)
Chaucer: Saturn's Daughter (1934) (0)
Instructor's manual for understanding poetry (1976) (0)
Yeats: His Poetry and His Prose (1965) (0)
English Institute Essays 1946. Part I, The Critical Significance of Biographical Evidence: "John Milton" (1949) (0)
Modern criticism : a short history (1970) (0)
Repository planning: what wastes will be received (1983) (0)
A Tribute to Richard Eberhart (1985) (0)
When Did Joanna Burden Die?: A Note (1973) (0)
The Language of Poetry.@@@The Bases of Artistic Creation. (1942) (0)

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