biography
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| (1888–1974)
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| biography:
| Literary critic, poet, and educator, born in Pulaski, Tennessee, USA. He was educated at Vanderbilt and Oxford universities. While teaching at Vanderbilt (1914–37), he joined the Fugitive group of Southern writers, founded Fugitive, and wrote most of the poetry that was to spark the Southern literary renaissance and win the Bollingen Poetry Prize (1951). Even more influential as a critic, in The New Criticism (1941) and later essays he advanced a critical practice based on close textual analysis that was to dominate American universities for 30 years. He became closely identified with Kenyon College as a professor of poetry (1937–58) and as editor of the Kenyon Review (1939–58), and his students included Allen Tate, Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren and many other poets and critics. |
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