Word: cleanth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among U.S. poets and critics who will teach at Kenyon's new School of English during the next three summers: Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Robert Lowell, Cleanth Brooks, Lionel Trilling, William Empson, Matthiessen, R. P. Blackmur, Yvor Winters...
...Southern Review, published on a grant from Louisiana State University (TIME, Feb. 2, 1942), brought together the "experimental" and the "Academic," civilizing both. Cleanth Brooks Jr. and Robert Penn Warren, the editors, were writers and teachers respected in both professions; both professions lamented when the Southern Review's seven-year term...
...distinguished literary quarterly, the Southern Review, has announced that its spring issue of 1942 will probably be its last. Louisiana State University decided it can no longer afford the $10,000 a year the Review costs. Back to full-time teaching in the English department will go Review Editors Cleanth Brooks Jr. and Robert Penn Warren (Night Rider). Says L.S.U.'s prexy, Major General Campbell Blackshear Hodges...
Their paradoxical benefactor was Louisiana's Huey Long, who had simpler notions of salvation. From the millions lavished by Huey to endow Louisiana State University with a nonpareil stadium, football team and campus, three ex-Rhodes scholars, named Robert Penn Warren, then 29, Cleanth Brooks Jr., 28, and Charles W. Pipkin, 35, managed in 1935 to get a cut of $10,000 a year for a quarterly review...