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Cleanth Brooks was an American literary critic and professor.

Cleanth Brooks() was born in Kentucky, and educated at Vanderbilt, Tulane, and Oxford where he was a Rhodes scholar.

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Brooks focuses on theme, character, and plot as well as on Faulkner's world—the fictional Yoknapatawpha County that provides a unique setting for Faulkner's.

Cleanth Brooks was an American teacher and critic whose work was important in establishing the New Criticism, which stressed close reading and structural.

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Cleanth Brooks

American literary critic and professor

Cleanth Brooks (KLEE-anth;^[1] 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.

Cleanth Brooks, the author of three seminal studies of William Faulkner Cleanth Brooks () was born in Kentucky, and educated at Vanderbilt.

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.

Brooks was also the preeminent critic of Southern literature, writing classic texts on William Faulkner, and co-founder of the influential journal The Southern Review (Leitch 2001) with Robert Penn Warren.

Life and career

Early life

On October 16, 1906, in Mu