| Cleanth Brooks  Born: 16-Oct-1906
Birthplace: Murray, KY
Died: 10-May-1994
Location of death: New Haven, CT
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Methodist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Critic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Well Wrought Urn Father: Cleanth Brooks, Sr. (Methodist minister)
Mother: Bessie Lee Witherspoon
Wife: Edith Amy Blanchord (m. 1934)
High School: McTyeire School
University: BA, Vanderbilt University (1928)
University: Tulane University
University: Exeter College, Oxford University
Professor: Louisiana State University (1932-47)
Professor: Yale University (1947-75)
Southern Review Co-Editor (1935-42)
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Philosophical Society
Rhodes Scholarship
Guggenheim Fellowship
Author of books:
Understanding Poetry (1938, textbook, with Robert Penn Warren)
Modern Poetry and the Tradition (1939, criticism)
Understanding Fiction (1943, textbook, with Robert Penn Warren)
Understanding Drama (1945, textbook, with Robert Heilman)
The Well Wrought Urn (1947, criticism)
Literary Criticism: A Short History (1957, with William K. Wimsatt)
William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country (1963)
The Hidden God: Studies in Hemingway, Faulkner, Yeats, Eliot, and Warren (1963)
A Shaping Joy: Studies in the Writer’s Craft (1972)
American Literature: The Makers and the Making (1973)
William Faulkner: Toward Yoknapatawpha and Beyond (1978)
William Faulkner: First Encounters (1983)
The Language of the American South (1985)
Firm Beliefs of William Faulkner (1987)
Historical Evidence and the Reading of Seventeenth Century Poetry (1991)
Community, Religion, and Literature: Essays (1995)
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