First published in 1957, Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from i...

In A Shaping Joy (originally published in 1971), Cleanth Brooks writes about modern literature an...

It seems appropriate, if not inevitable, that one of our best critics should be the foremost auth...

This study presents the revolutionary thesis that English poetry and poetic theory were deflected...

A classic that has been widely used by several generations, this book consists of detailed commen...

Hailed by critics and scholars as the most valuable study of Faulkner's fiction, Cleanth Brooks's...

There is no easy way to learn to write', is the opening line of this clear and effective guide fo...

This early work on drama is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. Its 754 pages c...

UNDERSTANDING DRAMA. EIGHT PLAYS by CLEANTH BROOKS ROBERT B. HEILMAN. Contents include: LETTER TO...

There is no easy way to learn to write', is the opening line of this clear and effective guide fo...

In this companion volume to William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country,Cleanth Brooks takes an i...

First published in 1957, Literary Criticism: A Short History traces our aesthetic heritage from i...