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Brooks, Cleanth

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Brooks, Cleanth (1906–94), American critic, born in Kentucky, and educated at Vanderbilt and Tulane Universities, then at Oxford. He taught at Louisiana State University and Yale. His college textbook Understanding Poetry (1938, with R. P. Warren) helped to establish the methods of the New Criticism in classrooms. His major works of poetic criticism, Modern Poetry and the Tradition (1939) and The Well Wrought Urn (1947), both regard irony and paradox as the typical virtues of poetry, in lucid developments from T. S. Eliot's critical arguments. He also wrote two volumes on W. Faulkner, and essays collected in The Hidden God (1963) and A Shaping Joy (1971).

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Brooks, Cleanth, see New Criticism.

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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Brooks, Cleanth." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-BrooksCleanth.html

James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Brooks, Cleanth." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-BrooksCleanth.html

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Free newspaper and magazine articles

	Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism. Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 12/22/1996
	Cleanth Brooks and Allen Tate: Collected Letters, 1933-1976.(Review) Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 3/22/2000
	Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren: A Literary Correspondence.(Review) Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 9/22/1998