Cleanth Brooks letters
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Cleanth Brooks letters
- Date
- 1939-1947, 1964 (inclusive)
- Creator
- Brooks, Cleanth
- Extent
- 0.1 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Publishers and publishing -- United States.
- Letters.
- Authors, American -- 20th century.
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged chronologically.
- Preferred Citation
- 2012ms040: [identification of item], Cleanth Brooks letters, 1939-1947, 1964, University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
- Repository
- University of Kentucky
Collection Overview
- Biography / History
- Cleanth Brooks (1906-1994), Kentucky-born author, English professor, Faulkner scholar, and a founder of New Criticism, was born in Murray, Kentucky. He attended Vanderbilt University, Tulane University, and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar (1929-1932). Brooks is noted primarily for his work as a literary critic and is considered an authority on the work of William Faulkner. The founder and editor of The Southern Review, Brooks has collaborated with Robert Penn Warren on several publications. Along with Warren, Brooks was a proponent of the "New Criticism", a modern approach to the study of literature. His works include American Literature: The Makers and the Making (with Robert Penn Warren and R. W. B. Lewis) (1973), The Hidden God (1963), Literary Criticism (with William K. Wimsatt) (1957), Modern Poetry and the Tradition (1939), A Shaping Joy (1971), Understanding Fiction (with Warren) (1943), Understanding Poetry (with Warren) (1938), The Well Wrought Urn (1947), and four books on Faulkner.
- Scope and Content
- The Cleanth Brooks letters (dated 1939-1947, 1964; 0.1 cubic feet; 1 folder) consists of Brooks' letters to Arthur Mizener concerning the publication of the literary journal The Southern Review.
Restrictions on Access and Use
- Conditions Governing Access
- Collection is open to researchers by appointment.
- Use Restrictions
- The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.
Contents of the Collection
Cleanth Brooks letters to Arthur Mizener, 1939-1947, 1964
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Reproduction requests will still be available during the closure.
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