Cleanth Brooks

Cleanth Brooks
Born	(1906-10-16)October 16, 1906 Murray, Kentucky, U.S.
Died	May 10, 1994(1994-05-10) (aged 87)
Education	McTyeire School Vanderbilt University Tulane University Exeter College, Oxford
Occupation(s)	Literary critic, academic
Spouse	Edith Amy Blanchord

Cleanth Brooks KLEE-anth (October 16, 1906 – May 10, 1994) was an American literary critic and teacher.

Brooks was born in Murray, Kentucky. He went to college at Vanderbilt University and Tulane University. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.

He wrote Understanding Poetry in 1938 with poet Robert Penn Warren. This helped to begin a way of looking at literature that is called "The New Criticism." He taught at Yale University from 1946 until 1975.

Books

• 1936. An Approach to Literature
• 1938. Understanding Poetry
• 1939. Modern Poetry and the Tradition
• 1943. Understanding Fiction
• 1947. The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry
• 1957. Literary Criticism: A Short History
• 1963. William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country
• 1964. The Hidden God: Studies in Hemingway, Faulkner, Yeats, Eliot, and Warren
• 1971. A Shaping Joy: Studies in the Writer's Craft
• 1973. American Literature: The Makers and the Making
• 1978. William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond
• 1983. William Faulkner: First Encounters
• 1985. The Language of the American South
• 1991. Historical Evidence and the Reading of Seventeenth-Century Poetry