Cleanth Brooks was an influential American literary critic and professor. He is best known for his contributions to New Criticism in the mid-twentieth century and for revolutionizing the teaching of poetry in American higher education. His best-known works, "The Well Wrought Urn" (1947) and "Modern Poetry and the Tradition" (1939), argue for the centrality of ambiguity and paradox as a way of understanding poetry. Wikipedia
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