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American literary critic and professor
in Murray, Kentucky, Brooks was born to a Methodist minister, the Reverend Cleanth Brooks Sr., and Bessie Lee Witherspoon Brooks (Leitch 2001). He was
Cleanth_Brooks
Figure of speech in literature
is illogical, but there are many interpretations of this metaphor. Cleanth Brooks, an active member of the New Criticism movement, outlines the use of
Paradox_(literature)
Formalist movement in literary theory
approach, were important to the development of a New Critical methodology. Cleanth Brooks, John Crowe Ransom, W. K. Wimsatt, and Monroe Beardsley also made significant
New_Criticism
American poet, novelist, and literary critic (1905–1989)
Southern Writers. He founded the literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for All the
Robert_Penn_Warren
Petrarchan sonnet by William Wordsworth
Sparrow's Nest". Wordsworth (2002), p. 12. Brooks (1956), p. 5. Mambrol, Nasrullah (18 March 2016). "Cleanth Brooks' Concept of Language of Paradox". Literary
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
Composed_upon_Westminster_Bridge,_September_3,_1802
Poem by John Donne
itself functions as a canonisation of the pair of lovers. New Critic Cleanth Brooks used the poem, along with Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Man" and William
The_Canonization
translation. Cleanth Brooks identifies the heresy of paraphrase in the eponymous chapter from The Well Wrought Urn, a work of the New Criticism. Brooks argues
The_Heresy_of_Paraphrase
Poem by William Butler Yeats
intuition, nature and history, subsumed within a vision of eternal order". Cleanth Brooks asks whether, in this poem, Yeats chooses idealism or materialism and
Sailing_to_Byzantium
Careful, sustained interpretation of a brief passage of a text
cultural context, or historical background. For these critics such as Cleanth Brooks, William K. Wimsatt, John Crowe Ransom, and Allen Tate, close reading
Close_reading
1947 essay collection by Cleanth Brooks
Studies in the Structure of Poetry is a 1947 collection of essays by Cleanth Brooks. It is considered a seminal text in the New Critical school of literary
The_Well_Wrought_Urn
1974 film by Roman Polanski
him to emotional and moral complexities, invoking literary theorists Cleanth Brooks and Robert B. Heilman to describe Gittes as "the Oedipus whose success
Chinatown_(1974_film)
1929 novel by William Faulkner
Blotner, p. 236 Brooks, p. 114 Brooks, p. 106 Joseph Leo Blotner (1974): Faulkner: a biography. New York, Random House. Cleanth Brooks (1991): William
Sartoris
Private university in Nashville, Tennessee, US
Platonist philosopher Richard M. Weaver, founder of New Criticism Cleanth Brooks, mathematician Lawrence C. Evans, Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare
Vanderbilt_University
1922 poem by T. S. Eliot
commentary was taken further by F. R. Leavis, F. O. Matthiessen and Cleanth Brooks, who believed that, despite its apparent disjointedness, the poem contains
The_Waste_Land
American professor of literature
Contraries (1965) and Literary Criticism: A Short History (1957, with Cleanth Brooks). Wimsatt was considered crucial to New Criticism (particularly New
William_K._Wimsatt
1932 novel by William Faulkner
upon but receives generous assistance in her travels. According to Cleanth Brooks, this opposition between Joe and Lena is a pastoral reflection of the
Light_in_August
American writer and novelist (1897–1962)
Faulkner." The New Critics became interested in Faulkner's work, with Cleanth Brooks writing The Yoknapatawpha Country and Michael Millgate writing The Achievement
William_Faulkner
Poem by William Wordsworth
are equally suitable to a bee, or a dog, or a field of corn?" Later, Cleanth Brooks reanalyzes the argument to point out that Wordsworth would include the
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Ode:_Intimations_of_Immortality
narrating and narrator and narrated and between the narrator and narratee. Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren define the term focus of narration that has four
Glossary_of_narratology
Poem by Joyce Kilmer
poem was criticized by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren in their textbook Understanding Poetry first published in 1938. Brooks and Warren were two of
Trees_(poem)
Five poems written by William Wordsworth
Wondering if Lucy more resembles the violet or the star, the critic Cleanth Brooks (1906–1994) concludes that while Wordsworth likely views her as "the
The_Lucy_poems
Hartman: Yale school of deconstruction John Crowe Ransom: New Criticism Cleanth Brooks: New Criticism Kenneth Burke: Rhetoric studies Elaine Showalter: Feminist
List of American literary critics
List_of_American_literary_critics
Surname list
American rower Claire Brooks (1931–2008), British politician Cleanth Brooks (1906–1994), American literary critic Clifford Brooks (born 1949), American
Brooks_(surname)
American literary organization
Southern Lit Alliance in Chattanooga, TN.[citation needed] A.R. Ammons Cleanth Brooks Fred Chappell George Core James Dickey Ralph Ellison Horton Foote Shelby
Fellowship of Southern Writers
Fellowship_of_Southern_Writers
Systematic study of the nature of literature
biographical issues W. K. Wimsatt, F. R. Leavis, John Crowe Ransom, Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren New historicism – which examines the work through
Literary_theory
1819 poem by John Keats
recording, and as being for the reader, an indulgence." Following Leavis, Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, in a 1938 essay, saw the poem as "a very rich
Ode_to_a_Nightingale
American poet (1830–1886)
a number of the New Critics—among them R. P. Blackmur, Allen Tate, Cleanth Brooks and Yvor Winters—appraised the significance of Dickinson's poetry. As
Emily_Dickinson
critical interpretation of literature offered by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks to celebrate the continuation of such achievement. It is awarded for
Warren–Brooks_Award
American TV writer and producer (born 1945)
Yale. During his teaching career, he assisted Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks in the writing of several college textbooks on literature. Milch's poetry
David_Milch
1938 book by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren
Understanding Poetry is an American college textbook and poetry anthology by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, first published in 1938. The book influenced
Understanding_Poetry
American humorist and children's book author (born 1953)
During her undergraduate and graduate years, her teachers included Cleanth Brooks, Harold Bloom, Richard B. Sewall, Maynard Mack, Maurice Sendak, Richard
Sandra_Boynton
Poem by William Wordsworth
3. Jones, 190. Brooks, 736. Jones, 95 Davies, Damien Walford. "Lucy's Trodden Ways". Oxford University Press, 1995. Brooks, Cleanth. Irony as a Principle
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
She_dwelt_among_the_untrodden_ways
Sonnet by William Wordsworth
the reader for the ensuing image of the eternal motion of the sea. Cleanth Brooks provided an influential analysis of the sonnet in terms of these tensions
It is a beauteous evening, calm and free
It_is_a_beauteous_evening,_calm_and_free
Public university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US
King's Men, and renowned literary critic of the New Criticism school, Cleanth Brooks. It publishes fiction, poetry, and essays, with an emphasis on southern
Louisiana_State_University
Theories based on the teachings of Petrus Ramus
It quickly lent itself to floridity of style. William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks consider that the Ramist reform at least created a tension between the
Ramism
American writer (born 1934)
Forum and M&T Bank Premio Artusi 2008 La Città di Forlimpopoli The Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement 2009 Fellowship of Southern Writers The
Wendell_Berry
American actor
1955, after studying with novelist and poet Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks, advocates of New Criticism. After working a teaching job in Vermont
George_Dickerson
1819 poem by John Keats
context of the poem itself is not very different from Mr. Eliot's." Cleanth Brooks defended the lines from critics in 1947 and argued: We shall not feel
Ode_on_a_Grecian_Urn
American writer and literary critic
Tate, Peter Taylor, Robie Macauley, Robert Penn Warren, E.L. Doctorow, Cleanth Brooks, Richard M. Weaver, James Wright, and C. A. Patrides. His literary reputation
John_Crowe_Ransom
Study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature
and Monroe Beardsley: The Intentional Fallacy, The Affective Fallacy Cleanth Brooks: The Heresy of Paraphrase; Irony as a Principle of Structure Jan Mukařovský:
Literary_criticism
English literary critic (1893–1979)
younger. Other critics primarily influenced by his writings included Cleanth Brooks and Allen Tate. Later critics who refined the formalist approach to
I._A._Richards
American scholar (1910–1963)
University (LSU), whose faculty included the rhetoricians and critics Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, and the conservative political philosopher Eric
Richard_M._Weaver
Author's intent as it is encoded in their work
interpretations produced by readers. New Criticism, as espoused by Cleanth Brooks, W. K. Wimsatt, T. S. Eliot, and others, argued that authorial intent
Authorial_intent
1931 novel by William Faulkner
Public Schools, "a detective story with overtones of Greek tragedy". Cleanth Brooks believed that the work was a "mood piece" on, in Degenfelder's words
Sanctuary_(Faulkner_novel)
American poet, essayist, social commentator (1899–1979)
evening in London. At Sewanee the program included Denis Donoghue, Cleanth Brooks, Howard Nemerov, William Jay Smith, Radcliffe Squires, Walter Sullivan
Allen_Tate
1751 poem by Thomas Gray
Browning) is cruder than that in the Coy Mistress." Later, in 1947, Cleanth Brooks pointed out that "In Gray's poem, the imagery does seem to be intrinsically
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Elegy_Written_in_a_Country_Churchyard
1847 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Retrieved 1 June 2025. Brooks, Cleanth (1944), p. 177. "The Motivation of Tennyson's Weeper." In Killham (1960), pp. 177–185. Brooks, Cleanth (1944), pp. 184–185
Tears,_Idle_Tears
American writer (born 1949)
Eliot Weinberger)". The Paris Review. 253. New York. 79. I remember Cleanth Brooks saying in a lecture that nothing of interest had been written since
Eliot_Weinberger
Fictional character
viewpoint on Temple agrees with that of Urgo; Muhlenfeld counted Urgo, Cleanth Brooks, Philip M. Weinstein, and Judith Bryant Wittenberg as writers who view
Temple_Drake
with Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade, Denise Levertov, Sallie McFague, Cleanth Brooks, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, and John Updike. Its activities and programming
Society for the Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture
Society_for_the_Arts,_Religion_and_Contemporary_Culture
1929 United States Member of the Virginia General Assembly (1948–1964) Cleanth Brooks Vanderbilt University Tulane University Exeter 1929 United States American
List_of_Rhodes_Scholars
American poet (1893–1968)
Understanding Poetry. Its editors were his former students Warren and Cleanth Brooks. From 1923 to 1930, Davidson reviewed books and edited the Nashville
Donald_Davidson_(poet)
American writer
writing and poetry was Robert Penn Warren, along with being mentored by Cleanth Brooks. Near the end period of receiving his doctorate, Swallow began working
Alan_Swallow
Private university in New Haven, Connecticut, US
movement. Of the New Critics, Robert Penn Warren, W.K. Wimsatt, and Cleanth Brooks were all Yale faculty. Later, the Yale Comparative literature department
Yale_University
Professor of Psychiatry emeritus at Duke University School of Medicine Cleanth Brooks (B.A. 1928) – literary critic and professor of English at Yale University
List of Vanderbilt University people
List_of_Vanderbilt_University_people
biologist/environmental scientist Ian Bremmer, political scientist Cleanth Brooks, literary critic Winston Chang, president of Soochow University John
List of Tulane University people
List_of_Tulane_University_people
American philosophical movement
criticism. The representatives were John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren. "The influential critical methods these poet-professors
American_modernism
American author and historian (1934–2025)
Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, Donald Davidson and Cleanth Brooks. Jesse Wills' sonnets were published in the poetry magazine, The Fugitive
Ridley_Wills_II
Canadian literary scholar, critic and professor
with a dissertation on James Joyce, written under the supervision of Cleanth Brooks. This work, which won the John Addison Porter Prize at Yale, became
Hugh_Kenner
English literary critic and poet
included John Crowe Ransom, Robert Lowell, Delmore Schwartz, Eric Bentley, Cleanth Brooks, Arthur Mizener, Allen Tate and Yvor Winters. In 1953 Empson was professor
William_Empson
Literary group in Tennessee, US
Patch".) Less closely associated with the Fugitives were the critic Cleanth Brooks and the poet Laura Riding. The Fugitives partly overlapped with a later
Fugitives_(poets)
City in Kentucky, United States
Finance (IIF) Shane Andrus, football player Leigh-Allyn Baker, actress Cleanth Brooks, literary critic W. Earl Brown, actor Joe Buck, musician Robert Emmett
Murray,_Kentucky
Twelve authors of the Southern Agrarians manifesto
contributions from Donald L. Anderson (1932–2004), M. E. Bradford, Cleanth Brooks, Thomas Fleming, Samuel T. Francis, George Garrett, William C. Havard
Southern_Agrarians
American historian
anniversary.[citation needed] The volume included contributions by Cleanth Brooks, Andrew Lytle, George Garrett, and others.[independent source needed]
Clyde_N._Wilson
American literary critic and professor (1928–2021)
Leitch (Ed.). (2001). The Norton Anthology of Literary Criticism. "Cleanth Brooks" 1352. "Deconstruction, by Mitchell Stephens CJR, Sept/Oct 91". Archived
J._Hillis_Miller
Concept in philosophy
Critics movement. Cleanth Brooks played an integral role in modernizing the organic unity principle. In The Well Wrought Urn, Brooks used the poem "The
Organic_unity
County in Kentucky, United States
inventor Harry Lee Waterfield, politician Molly Sims, actress/model Cleanth Brooks, professor, literary critic Mel Purcell, professional tennis player
Calloway_County,_Kentucky
Erskine Caldwell, Edgar Allan Poe, Joel Chandler Harris, Sidney Lanier, Cleanth Brooks, Pat Conroy, Harper Lee, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, Ralph Ellison
Culture of the Southern United States
Culture_of_the_Southern_United_States
Richard A. Penry, 45, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient. Cleanth Brooks, 87, American literary critic and professor. Oliver Fletcher, 71, American
Deaths_in_May_1994
Literature professor and academic
Guillory, John (1983). "The Ideology of Canon-Formation: T. S. Eliot and Cleanth Brooks". Critical Inquiry. 10 (1): 173–198. doi:10.1086/448242. ISSN 0093-1896
John_Guillory
Literature anthology
Strauss Jacques Lacan Langston Hughes Lionel Trilling Hannah Arendt Cleanth Brooks William K. Wimsatt Jr. and Monroe C. Beardsley Simone de Beauvoir Claude
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism
The_Norton_Anthology_of_Theory_and_Criticism
British-American classical scholar (1914–2010)
awarded by the American Philosophical Society Books: Bernard Knox, Cleanth Brooks, Maynard Mack, Tragic Themes in Western Literature: Seven Essays by
Bernard_Knox
Magazine produced without a motive of profit
Crowe going on to edit The Kenyon Review, and Ransom together with Cleanth Brooks to found another (1935) Southern Review. In the final phase, both established
Little_magazine
Short story by Eudora Welty
attention of editors at The Southern Review—among them Robert Penn Warren, Cleanth Brooks and Katherine Anne Porter—after "Death of a Traveling Salesman" was
Death_of_a_Traveling_Salesman
Katharine Mary Briggs (Lady Margaret Hall) Vera Brittain (Somerville) Cleanth Brooks (Exeter) Robert Burchfield (Magdalen and Christ Church) Sir Raymond
List of University of Oxford people
List_of_University_of_Oxford_people
Academic journal
James Merrill, Iris Murdoch, Howard Nemerov, Edmund White, Maxim Gorky, Cleanth Brooks, and Robert Penn Warren, Ann Harleman, Thomas Beller, Ben Fountain,
Southwest_Review
1939 short story by Irwin Shaw
for such early short stories as The Girls in Their Summer Dresses. Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren locate the theme in "a serious idea—the failure
The Girls in Their Summer Dresses
The_Girls_in_Their_Summer_Dresses
Book by René Wellek and Austin Warren
of European and American literature theory through discussions with Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, as well as extensive reading of contemporary
Theory_of_Literature
American literary critic and teacher (1916–2015)
John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Donald Davidson, Robert Penn Warren, Cleanth Brooks, and Andrew Lytle. Although they were successful and popular for decades
Louise_Cowan
American intellectual historian (1948–2008)
Rouge (1991) William Humphrey, Boise State University, Boise (1992) Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville
Mark_Royden_Winchell
American writer (1921–2019)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Morgan Foundation, 2002 Cleanth Brooks Medal for achievement awarded by the Fellowship of Southern Writers
Elizabeth_Spencer_(writer)
1925), Sue Grafton (1940 – 2017), Helen Thomas (1920 – 2013) 2020: Cleanth Brooks (1906 – 1994), Lucy Furman (1870 – 1958), Hollis Summers (1916 – 1987)
List of writers' halls of fame
List_of_writers'_halls_of_fame
American poet (born 1940)
Poetry Fellowship. The winner of the Ann Stanford Prize for Poetry, the Cleanth Brooks Award for creative non-fiction, and the James Dickey Poetry Prize, Tillinghast
Richard_Tillinghast
of Motives John Brannigan New Historicism and Cultural Materialism Cleanth Brooks The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry Sean Burke
List of works in critical theory
List_of_works_in_critical_theory
Honorary lecture series
Society". National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2020-04-19. Brooks, Cleanth (1985-05-18). "Literature in a Technological Age". National Endowment
Jefferson_Lecture
American literary magazine
American letters.[citation needed] It focused on New Criticism, alongside Cleanth Brooks's Southern Review and John Crowe Ransom's The Kenyon Review. Tate also
The_Sewanee_Review
Canadian novelist, critic and teacher (1909–1998)
were sold. Supporters such as ... McLuhan, as well as Yale formalist Cleanth Brooks, saw it as a literary landmark ushering the Canadian novel out of its
Sheila_Watson_(writer)
an Anglican vicar. Branwell Brontë – brother of the Brontë sisters. Cleanth Brooks – literary critic who wrote Community, Religion, and Literature: Essays
List_of_children_of_clergy
American novelist
Warren, as well as articles, essays and book reviews by Eric Bentley, Cleanth Brooks, R. P. Blackmur, Malcolm Cowley, Richard Ellmann, Leslie Fiedler, Martin
Robie_Macauley
Historical form of conservatism in the United States
Adhering to strict literary standards (Warren and traditionalist scholar Cleanth Brooks later formulated a form of literary criticism known as the New Criticism)
Traditionalist conservatism in the United States
Traditionalist_conservatism_in_the_United_States
Novelist, poet, short story writer, playwright
(1999) Lifetime Achievement Award from the Library of Virginia (2004) Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement from the Fellowship of Southern Writers
George_Garrett_(poet)
Yale University senior society
and lawyer Richard H. Brodhead 1968 9th President of Duke University Cleanth Brooks Honorary Literary critic Matthew Bruccoli 1953 F. Scott Fitzgerald scholar
Manuscript Society (Yale University)
Manuscript_Society_(Yale_University)
US magazine (1933–1937)
literary matters, drawing on her experience working at several magazines Cleanth Brooks – literary critic associated with the Southern Agrarians and the Fugitives
The American Review (literary journal)
The_American_Review_(literary_journal)
American journal editor
Intercollegiate Review. The latter volume contains contributions by Robert Bork, Cleanth Brooks, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Russell Kirk, Ludwig von Mises, Leo Strauss
Mark_C._Henrie
Award
Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) United States short story, essays Cleanth Brooks (1906–1994) 50 Ezra Pound (1885–1972) United States poetry, essays Hildebrecht
1967 Nobel Prize in Literature
1967_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature
American literary scholar and critic (1917 - 2002)
Literature: The Makers and the Making: Book C / 1861 to 1914 (1974, with Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren) Edith Wharton: A Biography (1975) The Jameses:
R._W._B._Lewis
91:4649 (Oct. 1, 1943) Austin, Alfred (1870), The Poetry of the Period Brooks, Cleanth (1951), The Formalist Critics Hand, Harry E., And War Be Done: Battle-Pieces
Historical_poetry
History of the efforts to establish a regulator for the English language
University Press. p. 197. ISBN 9780674031609. William K. Wimsatt, Jr. and Cleanth Brooks, Literary Criticism: A Short History (1957), p. 441. Arnold, Matthew
Proposals for an English Academy
Proposals_for_an_English_Academy
other scholarly books John Morton Blum, professor of political history Cleanth Brooks, professor of English, world-renowned expert on writer William Faulkner
List of Yale University people
List_of_Yale_University_people
American literary magazine
consisted of editor-in-chief Charles W. Pipkin, Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks as managing editors, and Albert Erskine as business manager. In 1942
The_Southern_Review
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English : topographic name for someone who lived by or worked at a barn, Middle English lathe, from Old Norse hlaða.
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One of the Ragas of Classical Melody
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English : see Cleek.Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Klick, Jewish Glick, or German and Jewish Glück (see Gluck).
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n.
One who, or that which, cleans.
superl.
Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.
a.
Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy.
superl.
Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence.
v. t.
To strengthen with a cleat.
superl.
Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber.
a.
With well-proportioned, unblemished limbs; as, a clean-limbed young fellow.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Cleanse
v. t.
To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean.
a.
To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.
imp. & p. p.
of Cleanse
adv.
In a clean manner; neatly.
v. t.
To cleanse; to clean out.
v. i.
To cleanse anything.
superl.
Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.
imp. & p. p.
of Clean
v. t.
To cleanse.
superl.
Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.
v. t.
To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge.
superl.
Habitually clean; pure; innocent.