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Brooks, Cleanth
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Brooks, Cleanth (1906–  ) literary critic; born in Murray, Ky. A long-time Yale professor (1946–75), he was the leading New Critic of the 1940s–1950s, recognized for his critical acuity in close readings of modern literature in The Well Wrought Urn (1947) and other essays. He published important works on Milton, Thomas Percy and William Faulkner.


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Eliot (1933), Allen Tate (1936), John Crowe Ransom (1941), and Cleanth Brooks (1947).
His account of the lives of Cleanth Brooks and Donald Davidson, two Southern conservatives, are models of their kind, unlikely to be superseded in the foreseeable future.
In an important essay on Housman, Cleanth Brooks posits several analogies between Housman's "doomed young soldiers" and Hemingway's "hero as man-at-arms during the First World War" (292).
 
 
 
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