Understanding Poetry is an American college textbook and poetry anthology by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, first published in 1938. The two Southern critics had met as students at Vanderbilt University and were both Rhodes Scholars at Oxford; in the 1930s they taught English together at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, where they also founded the literary journal The Southern Review in 1935.
Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren · CatalogCleanth Brooks and Robert Penn WarrenCleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren · CatalogCleanth Brooks (1906-1994) was an American critic and Yale professor, a leading New Critic; Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) was an American poet, novelist and critic, author of All the King's Men.Understanding Poetry
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