# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/cleanth-brooks
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:45:46.955Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/cleanth-brooks"
name: "Cleanth Brooks"
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description: "Cleanth Brooks was an American literary critic and professor. He is best known for his contributions to New Criticism in the mid-20th century and for revolutionizing the teaching of poetry in American higher education. His best-known works, The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (1947) and Modern Poetry and the Tradition (1939), argue for the centrality of ambiguity and paradox as a way of understanding poetry. With his writing, Brooks helped to formulate formalist criticism, emphasizing \"the interior life of a poem\" and codifying the principles of close reading."
tagline: "American literary critic and academic (1906–1994)"
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birthDate: "1906-10-16"
deathDate: "1994-05-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
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