Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994
Biography
Cleanth Brooks (1906-1994), one of the founders of New Criticism, editor of the Southern Review, professor at Louisiana State University and Yale University, Faulkner scholar, educator, and lecturer. His major works include American Literature (with Robert Penn Warren and R. W. B. Lewis) (1973), Literary Criticism (with William K. Wimsatt) (1957), and The Well Wrought Urn (1947).
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Cleanth Brooks papers
The Cleanth Brooks Papers contain correspondence, manuscripts of books, textbooks, essays, lectures, and various other shorter works, classroom material, professional papers, writings of others, and personal papers which document aspects of the life and career of Cleanth Brooks.
Seward Collins papers
The Seward Collins Papers contain correspondence, subject files, business papers, and other papers documenting Collins's editorship of The Bookman and The American Review.
Mark Feeney papers
The papers consist of an interview with Yale professor, C. Vann Woodward, conducted by Mark Feeney in preparation for his feature article, "Dean of American History." The papers also include interviews with former students and colleagues of Woodward.
Jerome New Frank papers
Furioso papers
Letter : Department of English, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, to Arthur, no year, January 8
Letter : to Joseph M. Flora, 1984 Mar 22
ALS declining to write an article on Robert Penn Warren for Flora's Fifty Southern Writers After 1900.
Letters : to Grover Smith, Duke University, Dept. of English, 1965-85
Three ALS and one TLS. With three envelopes.
Regarding Brooks's writing, his activities, and Smith's writing.
Maynard Mack papers
"Notes on Fr. Tassin dissertation", 1966
James Marshall Osborn correspondence
The correspondence concerns the scholarly and collecting interests of James Marshall Osborn. The collection documents his activities as a rare book and manuscript collector, his research in early modern and eighteenth century English literature, and his authorship of several volumes of literary history. Much of the correspondence is with other literary scholars, including F. W. Bateson, James Lowry Clifford, Wilmarth S. Lewis, Maynard Mack. Chauncey Brewster Tinker, and René Wellek.
Harry Roskolenko collection
The Southern Review records
Robert Penn Warren papers
The papers consist of drafts of manuscripts and related material, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings documenting Warren's life from his undergraduate years until his death in 1989.
C. Vann Woodward papers
The papers consist of correspondence, writings, topical files, and an interview, primarily documenting the professional career of historian C. Vann Woodward.
World literature lectures, Yale University
The records consist of audio recordings of lectures by Yale professors on literary classics.