| Front | Cleanth Brook |
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| Back | 1906-0000 critic a leader of southern agrarian group of new critics, he elaborated the critical principles of Eliot in his Modern Poetry and the tradition 1939 examining the poetry of Yeats and Eliot as a trivial of metaphysical Wit. well-wrought urn 1947 comprises a series of close reading of poems from Donne to Yeats, concentrating on their ironies and ambiguities in the manner of William Empson.- with Robert Penn warren wrote Understanding Poetry 1938, and Modern Rhetoric 1949, two college textbooks which help to entrench the new criticism as an academic orthodoxy. his long Literary Criticism: a short history ( with w. k. wimsatt, 1957) still command wide respect Brook's other works include the Hidden God (1963), A shopping joy (1971), and the language of American South (1985) |
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