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    Cleanth Brooks helped formulate New Criticism, emphasizing close reading of the interior life of a poem. He was a leading critic of Southern literature and co-founded The Southern Review with Robert Penn Warren. Brooks and Warren collaborated on several influential works that helped establish New Critical approaches to teaching poetry and literature. Brooks' seminal works The Well Wrought Urn and The Language of Paradox established his argument that paradox is the central and inevitable language of poetry. He argued that paraphrasing a poem does it an injustice by failing to account for the inseparability of form and content in poetry.

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    Cleanth Brooks helped formulate New Criticism, emphasizing close reading of the interior life of a poem. He was a leading critic of Southern literature and co-founded The Southern Review with Robert Penn Warren. Brooks and Warren collaborated on several influential works that helped establish New Critical approaches to teaching poetry and literature. Brooks' seminal works The Well Wrought Urn and The Language of Paradox established his argument that paradox is the central and inevitable language of poetry. He argued that paraphrasing a poem does it an injustice by failing to account for the inseparability of form and content in poetry.

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    Cleanth Brooks helped formulate New Criticism, emphasizing close reading of the interior life of a poem. He was a leading critic of Southern literature and co-founded The Southern Review with Robert Penn Warren. Brooks and Warren collaborated on several influential works that helped establish New Critical approaches to teaching poetry and literature. Brooks' seminal works The Well Wrought Urn and The Language of Paradox established his argument that paradox is the central and inevitable language of poetry. He argued that paraphrasing a poem does it an injustice by failing to account for the inseparability of form and content in poetry.

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    🌟 WONDERING MINDS LITERARY THEORY SERIES 🌟


    04 JULY 2023
    NTA UGC NET ENGLISH 

    🐬 NEW CRITICISM 🐬
    D-           Cleanth Brooks

    👉🏼 Cleanth Brooks with his writing helped to formulate Formalist Criticism, emphasizing'

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    The interior life of a poem' and codifying the principles of close reading.

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    👉🏼 Brooks was also the preeminent critic of Southern Literature, writing classic tests on
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    William Faulkner,and co-founder of the influential journal " The Southern Review with
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     *Brooks and Warren* *Collaborations*
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    Brooks and Warren's collaboration led to innovations in the teaching of poetry and
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    A-- An approach to Literature (1936)


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    B- Understanding poetry (1938)


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    C- Understanding fiction (1943)

    D- Modern Rhetoric (1949)

    E- In collaboration with Robert Heilman , Understanding Drama (1945) 

    👉🏼 Brooks' two most influential works also come out of the success of the booklet:-
    🌸 _Modern poetry_ and _The tradition (1939_ ) and _The Well Wrought_ _Urn : studies in
    the_ _structure of poetry._
    🌸 _Language of paradox_
    🌸 _Keats' Sylvian_ _historian - History_ _without footnotes._
     *Concept of Paradox* 

    Brooks' seminal essay , " The language of paradox " , lays out his argument for the
    centrality of paradox by demonstrating that paradox is " The language appropriate and
    inevitable to poetry"

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    👉🏼 The argument is based on the concentration that referential language is too vague for

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    the specific msg ,a poet expresses; he must " make up his language as he goes"

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    👉🏼 Cleanth Brooks talks about paradox in two worksM
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    A-- In the works of W. Wordsworth in _Westminster Bridge_ he says the speaker is able to
    see the beauty of industrialized London just as we appreciate any natural phenomena.
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    B-- John Donne's poem _Connonization_, there's a paradox used as an underlying


    metaphor where the speaker is describing his physical love as saintly. Love and religion
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    are inter related together and acts as a metaphysical conceit.

    👉🏼 In his reading of Wordsworth's poem ," composed Upon Westminster Bridge", Brooks
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    also contends that the poem offers paradox not in its details, but in the situation the
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    speaker creates.

    👉🏼 A similar paradox is used in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, when Juliet says ," For
    saints have hands that pilgrims' hand do touch and palm to palm is holy Palmer's kiss'.

    👉🏼 R S Crane has written a book ranked " The Critical Monism of Cleanth Brooks, he
    argues on emphasizing so much on paradox Brooks has ignored many other elements of
    poetry like imagination.

     *Concept of Heresy of* *paraphrase* 


    👉🏼 Heresy of paraphrase is written in the book ' Well Wrought Urn '.
    👉🏼 He says whenever we paraphrase and upload a poem , we are doing injustice to it 
    👉🏼 He claims that any excellent work could not condensed in 2to 3 minutes summary.
    👉🏼 In a poem , form and content are inseparable,that is why a poem cannot be reduced to
    a prose.

    👉🏼 Brooks says that irony is the chief organizing principle that creates structure of a
    poem.

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    👉🏼 Brooks says , " Even in the meaning of any particular item is modified by the context"

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    👉🏼 Dramatic irony is produced through a person who involves in action but doesn't know
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