Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Mark Royden Winchell
- First Published: 1996
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1906-1992
- Setting: The United States and Great Britain
- Principal Characters: Cleanth Brooks, Jr., Tinkum Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: History, United States or Americans, Literature, Poetry or poets, Novelists, Criticism, Drama or dramatists, Great Britain
- Locales: United States, Great Britain
Mark Royden Winchell’s Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism is both a biography and a work of intellectual history dealing with Cleanth Brooks’s central role in the rise—and fall—of the New Criticism. There are few biographies about literary critics or teachers, so this book, along with its mixture of literary history, is unusual. The life of Cleanth Brooks, Jr., however, was not marked by very much drama or even crisis; it was a serene and largely untroubled life. Biographers seldom choose such a subject.
The book begins with biography as it traces the...
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