Cleanth Brooks (Author of The Well Wrought Urn)

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Cleanth Brooks

Born

in Murray, Kentucky, The United States

October 16, 1906

Died

May 10, 1994

Genre

Criticism

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	The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry 3.83 avg rating — 382 ratings — published 1947 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Understanding Poetry by Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren 4.10 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 1938 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country 4.27 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 1963 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Understanding Fiction: Third Edition by Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren 4.12 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 1943 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	William Faulkner: First Encounters 4.48 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Language of the American South 4.12 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1985 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hidden God: Studies in Hemingway, Faulkner, Yeats, Eliot, and Warren 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1963 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Modern Poetry and the Tradition 3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1939 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Modern Rhetoric by Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Milton 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1950 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The poet wants to 鈥榮ay鈥� something. Why, then, doesn鈥檛 he say it directly and fortrightly? Why is he willing to say it only through his metaphors? Through his metaphors, he risks saying it partially and obscurely, and risks saying nothing at all. But the risk must be taken, for direct statement leads to abstraction and threatens to take us out of poetry altogether.”
― Cleanth Brooks

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“What Shelley's world of Prometheus Unbound really has to fear is not resurrection of Jupiter but the resurrection of John Donne.”
― Cleanth Brooks, Modern Poetry and the Tradition

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“If we allow ourselves to be misled by the heresy of paraphrase, we run the risk of doing even more violence to the internal order of the poem itself. By taking the paraphrase as our point of stance, we misconceive the function of metaphor and meter. We demand logical coherences where they are sometimes irrelevant, and we fail frequently to see imaginative coherences on levels where they are highly relevant.”
― Cleanth Brooks, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry

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