قراءة لمدة 1 دقيقة Cleanth Brooks

Cleanth Brooks (October 16, 1906 – May 10, 1994) was an American literary critic and teacher.

Brooks was born in Murray, Kentucky.
He went to college at Vanderbilt University and Tulane University.
He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.

He wrote "Understanding Poetry" in 1938 with poet Robert Penn Warren.
This helped to begin a way of looking at literature that is called "The New Criticism.
" He taught at Yale University from 1946 until 1975.