1906 - 1994
Cleanth Brooks American Critic
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| First Name |
Cleanth
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| Last Name |
Brooks
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| Birthday |
16th October, 1906
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| Birthplace |
Murray, Kentucky
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| Died |
10th May, 1994
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| Zodiac Sign |
Libra
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
Literary critic, academic
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| Occupation |
Critic
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Cleanth Brooks ( KLEE-anth; October 16, 1906 – May 10, 1994) 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 (1947) and Modern Poetry and the Tradition (1939), 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" (Leitch 2001) and codifying the principles of close reading.
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