Cleanth Brooks

American literary critic and academic.

Born October 16th, 1906 in Murray. [ref]

Died May 10th, 1994 at 87 years old in New Haven. [ref]

Occupations
journalist, literary critic, writer
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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. William Saroyan