Biography

Drake, Robert. "Cleanth Brooks." Modern Age, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Winter 1995): 166-68.

Drake recounts a meeting and Brooks's comments on the state of criticism.

Gollin, James. "Cleanth Brooks Remembered." The American Scholar, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Spring 1995): 257-63.

Personal recollections of Brooks are combined with a history of his writing.

McSween, Harold. "Cleanth Brooks, LSU, and the Southern Review." Sewanee Review, Vol. 104, No. 2 (Spring 1996): 274-86.

A concise history of Brooks's time at Louisiana State University and the political climate affecting the rise and fall of the Southern Review.

Rawson, Claude. "Cleanth Brooks: Some Personal Recollections." Southern Review (Spring 1995): 251-55.

Rawson fondly remembers Brooks as a soft-spoken, consummate gentleman.

Simpson, Lewis P. "Cleanth Brooks: The Long Conversation," Southern Review (Spring 1995): 224-38.

Simpson provides a record of some of the pivotal points in Brooks's life and career.

Criticism

Bush, Douglas. "Marvell's 'Horatian Ode.'" Sewanee Review, Vol. 60, No. 3 (July/September, 1952): 363-76.

Bush disagrees with Brooks's criticism of Marvell's poem. He cites several historical inaccuracies with Brooks's conclusions.

Kimball, Roger. "Cleanth Brooks and the New Criticism." New Criterion, Vol. 10, No. 2 (October 1991): 21-26.

Kimball defends the New Criticism against the claims of "historical amnesia."