Preliminary Class Business
Readings from the New Criticism on our syllabus to date:
1. Evolving Theory of New Criticism
- Other materials for discussion:
2. Practice of New Criticism
Story of arrival of the New Criticism in the classroom at Yale U., 1938-41
- Cleanth Brooks & Robert Penn Warren, ed., Understanding Poetry (1938)
- Some Yale English Dept. faculty members in the late 1930's-1940's who are relevant to the story (History of the Department):
- Maynard Mack
- Louis Martz
- John Pope
- Richard Sewald
- Chauncey Brewster Tinker
- W. K. Wimsatt,
- Cleanth Brooks hired at Yale 1947; Robert Penn Warren hired at Yale 1961
Examples of the practical criticism of the New Critics
Example of the heritage of New Critical practice
Example poem for close reading
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