Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism | Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism

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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.

Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism | Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism

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