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Poetry English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

The Well Wrought Urn

Studies in the Structure of Poetry

by (author) Cleanth Brooks

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Initial publish date
Jan 2001
Category
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780156957052
    Publish Date
    Jan 2001
    List Price
    $22.95

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A classic that has been widely used by several generations, this book consists of detailed commentaries on ten famous English poems from the Elizabethan period to the present. Index.

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Contributor Notes

Cleanth Brooks (1906-1994) was educated at Vanderbilt, Tulane, and Oxford universities. The Gray professor of rhetoric at Yale from 1947 to 1975, Brooks lectured and taught at many universities throughout his career. Additionally, he was co-editor, with Robert Penn Warren, of the Southern Review and the author of many books of criticism.