Cleanth Brooks and Allen Tate: Collected Letters, 1933-1976

Alphonse Vinh

ISBN 10: 0826212077 / ISBN 13: 9780826212078

Edité par University of Missouri, 1998

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Essential Correspondence of Two Southern Agrarian Icons. Step behind the scenes of twentieth-century American literary criticism with this comprehensive epistolary collection published by the University of Missouri Press. Spanning over four decades of intimate, intellectually rigorous correspondence between pioneer New Critic Cleanth Brooks and celebrated poet-critic Allen Tate, this volume charts the evolution of modern literary theory, Southern Agrarianism, the founding of The Southern Review, and the shifting landscapes of American academia. Edited with detailed annotations and historical introduction by Alphonse Vinh, these letters offer an indispensable primary-source record of two foundational figures in modern letters. Literary & Academic Significance: An essential primary document for scholars of 20th-century American literature, New Criticism, Southern literary history, and modern poetry. Bibliographic Detail: First Edition / First Printing (1998). Published by University of Missouri Press. Hardcover format with original dust jacket. Includes frontispiece photograph and extensive scholarly index. ISBN-10: 0826212077 / ISBN-13: 9780826212078. Condition Report: Dust Jacket: Present with light surface rubbing and minor edge shelf wear. Colors and typography remain clean, sharp, and fully legible. Binding & Boards: Hardcover cloth boards are square, rigid, and tightly bound. Outer corners and extremities are lightly rubbed from standard shelving. Interior & Text Block: The interior text block is exceptionally clean, bright, and completely unmarked?entirely free of student marginalia, underlining, or former owner signatures. Binding remains square and firm throughout. An authentic, clean-texted working copy of a vital literary correspondence archive.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Cleanth Brooks and Allen Tate: Collected Letters, 1933-1976
• Éditeur: University of Missouri
• Date de parution: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0826212077
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780826212078
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Poids: 1 livre

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Synopsis

Offering all of the extant letters exchanged by two of the twentieth century's most distinguished literary figures, Cleanth Brooks and Allen Tate: Collected Letters, 1933-1976 vividly depicts the remarkable relationship, both professional and personal, between Brooks and Tate over the course of their lifelong friendship.

An accomplished poet, critic, biographer, and teacher, Allen Tate had a powerful influence on the literary world of his era. Editor of the Fugitive and the Sewanee Review, Tate greatly affected the lives and careers of his fellow literati, including Cleanth Brooks. Esteemed coeditor of An Approach to Literature and Understanding Poetry, Brooks was one of the principal creators of the New Criticism. His Modern Poetry and the Tradition and The Well Wrought Urn, as well as his two-volume study of Faulkner, remain among the classics read by any serious student of literature. The correspondence between these two gentlemen-scholars, which began in the 1930s, extended over five decades and covered a vast amount of twentieth-century literary history.

In the more than 250 letters collected here, the reader will encounter their shared concerns for and responses to the work of their numerous friends and many prominent writers, including T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, and Robert Lowell. Their letters offer details about their own developing careers and also provide striking insight into the group dynamics of the Agrarians, the noteworthy community of southern writers who played so influential a role in the literature of modernism.

Brooks once said that Tate treated him like a younger brother, and despite great differences between their personalities and characters, these two figures each felt deep brotherly affection for the other. Whether they contain warm invitations for the one to visit the other, genteel or honest commentaries on their families and friends, or descriptions of the vast array of social, professional, and even political activities each experienced, the letters of Brooks and Tate clearly reveal the personalities of both men and the powerful ties of their strong camaraderie.

Invaluable to both students and teachers of literature, Cleanth Brooks and Allen Tate provides a substantial contribution to the study of twentieth-century American, and particularly southern, literary history.