Cleanth Brooks (1906–1994)
Autor/a de The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
Sobre l'autor
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, mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Sèrie
Obres de Cleanth Brooks
On the Prejudices, Predilections, and Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner: Essays (Southern Literary Studies) (1987) 14 exemplars
American Literature: The Makers and the Making Book d 1914 to the Present (American Literature (St Martins)) (1974) 8 exemplars
La struttura della poesia 3 exemplars
American Literature: The Makers and the Making, Beginnings to 1826/Book A (American Literature (St Martins)) (1974) 3 exemplars
The Relation of the Alabama-Georgia Dialect to the Provincial Dialects of Great Britain (1972) 2 exemplars
Poetisk struktur 2 exemplars
Rare Cleanth Brooks / Well Wrought Urn Studies in the Structure of Poetry 1st ed 1947 (1947) 1 exemplars
Understanding Poetry 4th (fourth) by Brooks, Cleanth, Warren, Robert Penn (1976) Paperback 1 exemplars
American Literature Makers & the making 1 exemplars
Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond 1 exemplars
The Southern review 1 exemplars
The American Scholar 1981-3 Summer 1 exemplars
Conversations on the craft of poetry 1 exemplars
Importance of place in Southern literature 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 921 exemplars
Tekstboek algemene literatuurwetenschap moderne ontwikkelingen in de literatuurwetenschap geillustreerd in een… (1977) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
The correspondence of Thomas Percy & Edmond Malone (The Percy letters) (1944) — Editor, algunes edicions — 5 exemplars
The Percy letters. 9, The correspondence of Thomas Percy and Robert Anderson (1989) — Editor, algunes edicions — 5 exemplars
The Percy Letters: The Correspondence of Thomas Percy and Richard Farmer — Editor, algunes edicions — 3 exemplars
The Percy Letters: The Correspondence of Thomas Percy and Thomas Warton. — Editor, algunes edicions — 2 exemplars
The Percy Letters: The Correspondence of Thomas Percy and David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes. — Editor, algunes edicions — 2 exemplars
The Percy Letters: The Correspondence of Thomas Percy and Evan Evans. — Editor, algunes edicions — 2 exemplars
The Percy Letters: The correspondence of Thomas Percy & George Paton — Editor, algunes edicions — 2 exemplars
Essays in honor of Esmond Linworth Marilla — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Brooks, Cleanth
- Data de naixement
- 1906-10-16
- Data de defunció
- 1994-05-10
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Murray, Kentucky, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Causa de la mort
- cancer of the esophagus
- Llocs de residència
- Murray, Kentucky, USA (birth)
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
New Haven, Connecticut, USA - Educació
- Vanderbilt University (BA ∙ 1928)
Tulane University (MA | 1929)
Exeter College, Oxford University (BA | 1931 | BLitt | 1932)
McTyeire School - Professions
- professor
literary critic
editor - Relacions
- Warrren, Robert Penn (friend)
Tate, Allen (friend)
Ransom, John Crowe (friend)
Lytle, Andrew (friend)
Davidson, Donald (teacher)
Kenner, Hugh (student) (mostra-les totes 9)
Lowell, Robert (student)
McLuhan, Marshall (friend)
Mims, Edwin (teacher) - Organitzacions
- Fellowship of Southern Writers (1987)
The Southern Review (co-founder, editor-in-chief)
American Association of University Professors
Athenaeum
Louisiana State University
Yale University (mostra-les totes 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 - Premis i honors
- 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) (mostra-les totes 9)
American Philosophical Society (1973)
Phi Beta Kappa
Rhodes Scholar
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
readingList (1)
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 58
- També de
- 24
- Membres
- 1,822
- Popularitat
- #14,116
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 17
- ISBN
- 75
- Llengües
- 1
- Preferit
- 1
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.