Cleanth Brooks papers
Abstract
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Cleanth Brooks papers
- Date
- 1948-1967, undated (inclusive)
- Creator
- Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994
- Extent
- 2 Cubic Feet
- Subjects
- Lectures and lecturing -- Kentucky.
- English literature.
- New Criticism.
- Arrangement
- Collection is arranged by subject.
- Preferred Citation
- 62m67: [identification of item], Cleanth Brooks papers, 1948-1967, undated, 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 papers (dated 1948-1967, undated; 2 cubic feet; 6 boxes) contain works both written by and gathered by Brooks during his career as an English professor and literary critic. The lectures, articles, essays, and texts included in the collection are examples of the New Criticism movement in post-modern America. Many of the lectures were given at academic institutions and literary conferences in the 1950s and 1960s. Topics include T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yates, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Percy, Sir Walter Scott, and William Wordsworth.
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
Lectures by Cleanth Brooks, 1961, undated
Lectures and works collected or written by Cleanth Brooks, 1951-1963
A lecture on Auden as critic given before the English Institute, 1962
A paper given at the South Atlantic MLA in Atlanta, 1951
Lecture on Wallace Stevens, undated
Review by Monroe Spears, The Poetry of W.H. Auden: The Disenchanted Island, 1963
Lecture by Morton Danwey Zabel, Irony as a Principle of Structure, 1951
Lecture by M.H. Abrams, Implications of an Organic Theory, 1957
Article by Cleanth Brooks, The Use of Literature, 1963
The Wolfer by Wallace Stegner, undated
The Wolfer author's notes, undated
Typescript, notes and correspondence from the publisher, 1962-1963
Duplicate proofs of The Wolfer, 1961 February 2
Tryout edition: A Program for the Close Reading of Wallace Stegner's The Wolfer by Cleanth Brooks, undated
"Lecture on Hardy" published in Hopkins Review, 1952 February
"Milton and the New Criticism" published in Sewanee Review, undated
"Review of Empson's Complex Words" published in Kenyon Review, undated
"Statement on Agrarianism" published in Standard Review, undated
"Lecture on Southern Regional Literature" published in Louisiana Library Bulletin, undated
"Review of A.E. Housman's Collected Poems" published in Kenyon Review, undated
"Review of Bishop and Auden" published in Kenyon Review, undated
"Review of I.A. Richard's Coleridge on Imagination" published in New Republic, undated
"Review of F.O. Matthienssen's Oxford Book of American Verse" published in Poetry, undated
Review of Alba H. Warren's "English Poetic Verse" published in English Poetic Theory, undated
"Analysis of Prayer for my Daughter and The Good Morrow" published in Approach to Literature, undated
Fragment of essay published in Et Veritas, 1952
"Zabel's Literary Opinion in America" published in College English, undated
"Museum Theory in Art" published in The Arts in America, undated
Penshawe paper published by the Humanities University of Wisconsin Press, undated
"Review of Letters on Poetry from W.B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley" published by Modern Language Notes, undated
Paper given before New York Council Teachers of English at Rutgers University, 1948 April 23
"Review of Cecil Day Lewis' Poetry" for You, undated
"Review of Poetry of Yeats" by Louis Mac Neice published in Modern Language Notes, undated
"A Critic's credo" published in Kenyon Review, undated
Review of "Tate's On the Limit's of Criticism" published in Hudson Review, undated
Part of Wasteland discussion and poetry, undated
Paper at Round Table at the University of Wisconsin see The Humanities, undated
"The Christian Component", Yale University Press, undated
The Hidden God, editing notes, undated
The Hidden God, with editing notes, 1963
Writings by Cleanth Brooks, 1948-1967
A note on the Literature of the Deep South, undated
Christian Faith and the Contemporary Arts, Christian Myth and the Symbolist Poets, undated
Review of Duncan, undated
The Country Parson as Research Scholar: Thomas Percy 1760-1770, 1959
The Criticism of Fiction: the role of Close Analysis, 1959 July 13
The Hidden God: Studies in Hemingway, Faulkner, Yeats, Eliot and Warren, 1964
American Literature: Mirror, Lens, or Prism?, 1967
Art, Morality and Censorship, undated
Critical Problems: Tone and Symbol, undated
Eve's Awakening, Essays in Honor of Walter Clyde Curry, undated
Faulkner's Go Getting Business Man, undated
Faulkner's Sense of Community, undated
Faulkner's Use of History, 1949
Garden, Desert and Circle in Eliot's Poetry, undated
Literary Criticism: Poet, Poem and Reader, 1958 November 28
Modern Poetry: Its Aim and Its Spirit, 1958 June
The Modern Writer and the Community He Writes For, 1965 October 15
The Methodological Interpretation of Literature, undated
Poetry and Poeticality, undated
Prayer Book Revision: Literary Criticism, undated
Race Problems in the Works of William Faulkner, undated
Randall Jarrell's Eighth Air Force, undated
Relation between Art and the Spirit of Man, 1965 June 16
Some American Poets, undated
Southern Literature: The Well Springs of its Vitality, undated
The State of Criticism: A Sampling, undated
The Thematic Aspect of Literature: A Cautionary Definition, 1955 November 25
T.S. Eliot: The Thinker and the Artist, 1965 December 10
Two Garden Poems: Marvel and Warren, 1948 April 7
W.B. Yeats and His Quarrel with the Bourgeosie, undated
W.B. Yeats as Critic, 1965 May 25
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