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en-wikipedia-org-6871		Cleanth Brooks - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3717	333	62	With his writing, Brooks helped to formulate formalist criticism, emphasizing "the interior life of a poem" (Leitch 2001) and codifying the principles of close reading. Brooks was also the preeminent critic of Southern literature, writing classic texts on William Faulkner, and co-founder of the influential journal The Southern Review (Leitch 2001) with Robert Penn Warren. Brooks formulated these guidelines in reaction to ornamentalist theories of poetry, to the common practice of critics going outside the poem (to historical or biographical contexts), and his and Warren's frustration with trying to teach college students to analyze poetry and literature (Leitch 2001). This approach to criticism, Brooks argued, "denied the authority of the work" (Leitch 2001). Further, critics praise Brooks and Warren for "introducing New Criticism with commendable clarity" (Singh 1991) and for teaching students how to read and interpret poetry. Along with New Criticism, Brooks' studies of Faulkner, Southern literature, and T.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6871.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6871.txt