Cleanth Brooks
Born: October 16, 1906
Died: May 10, 1994 (aged 87)
Bio: 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.
Known for:
- The Well Wrought Urn (1947)
- Understanding Poetry (1938)
- William Faulkner (1978)
- Modern rhetoric (1949)
- The language of the American South (1985)
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