A collection of letters exchanged by two of the 20th century's most distinguished literary figures, depicting their remarkable professional and personal relatio

In this volume Cleanth Brooks pays tribute to the language and literature of the American South. He writes of the language's unique syntax and its celebrated la

During a career that spanned sixty years, Cleanth Brooks was involved in most of the major controversies facing the humanities from the 1930s until his death in

As the last collection of Cleanth Brooks's essays before his death, Community, Religion, and Literature represents his final, considered views on the reading of

This study presents the revolutionary thesis that English poetry and poetic theory were deflected from their richest line of development by the scientific ratio