Cleanth Brooks (1906–1994)
Forfatter af 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, vis mere 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) vis mindre
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Værker af Cleanth Brooks
The Language of the American South (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures) (1985) 20 eksemplarer
On the Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner: Essays (Southern Literary Studies) (1987) 14 eksemplarer
American Literature: The Makers and the Making Book d 1914 to the Present (American Literature (St Martins)) (1974) 8 eksemplarer
American Literature: The Makers and the Making, Beginnings to 1826/Book A (American Literature (St Martins)) (1974) 3 eksemplarer
Modern Rhetoric with Readings by Brooks & Warren 1949 3 eksemplarer
The Relation of the Alabama-Georgia Dialect to the Provincial Dialects of Great Britain (1972) 2 eksemplarer
La struttura della poesia 2 eksemplarer
Poetisk struktur 2 eksemplarer
Rare Cleanth Brooks / Well Wrought Urn Studies in the Structure of Poetry 1st ed 1947 (1947) 1 eksemplar
Understanding Poetry 4th (fourth) by Brooks, Cleanth, Warren, Robert Penn (1976) Paperback 1 eksemplar
American Literature Makers & the making 1 eksemplar
Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond 1 eksemplar
The Southern review 1 eksemplar
The American Scholar 1981-3 Summer 1 eksemplar
Conversations on the craft of poetry 1 eksemplar
Importance of place in Southern literature 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 915 eksemplarer
Tekstboek algemene literatuurwetenschap moderne ontwikkelingen in de literatuurwetenschap geillustreerd in een… (1977) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
The correspondence of Thomas Percy & Edmond Malone (The Percy letters) (1944) — Redaktør, nogle udgaver — 5 eksemplarer
The Percy letters. 9, The correspondence of Thomas Percy and Robert Anderson (1989) — Redaktør, nogle udgaver — 5 eksemplarer
The Percy Letters: The Correspondence of Thomas Percy and Richard Farmer — Redaktør, nogle udgaver — 3 eksemplarer
The Percy Letters: The Correspondence of Thomas Percy and Thomas Warton. — Redaktør, nogle udgaver — 2 eksemplarer
The Percy Letters: The Correspondence of Thomas Percy and David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes. — Redaktør, nogle udgaver — 2 eksemplarer
The Percy Letters: The Correspondence of Thomas Percy and Evan Evans. — Redaktør, nogle udgaver — 2 eksemplarer
The Percy Letters: The correspondence of Thomas Percy & George Paton — Redaktør, nogle udgaver — 2 eksemplarer
Essays in honor of Esmond Linworth Marilla — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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- Brooks, Cleanth
- Fødselsdato
- 1906-10-16
- Dødsdag
- 1994-05-10
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Murray, Kentucky, USA
- Dødssted
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Dødsårsag
- cancer of the esophagus
- Bopæl
- Murray, Kentucky, USA (birth)
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
New Haven, Connecticut, USA - Uddannelse
- Vanderbilt University (BA ∙ 1928)
Tulane University (MA | 1929)
Exeter College, Oxford University (BA | 1931 | BLitt | 1932)
McTyeire School - Erhverv
- professor
literary critic
editor - Relationer
- Warrren, Robert Penn (friend)
Tate, Allen (friend)
Ransom, John Crowe (friend)
Lytle, Andrew (friend)
Davidson, Donald (teacher)
Kenner, Hugh (student) (vis alle 9)
Lowell, Robert (student)
McLuhan, Marshall (friend)
Mims, Edwin (teacher) - Organisationer
- Fellowship of Southern Writers (1987)
The Southern Review (co-founder, editor-in-chief)
American Association of University Professors
Athenaeum
Louisiana State University
Yale University (vis 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 - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- 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) (vis 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.