{"product_id":"9780826212078","title":"Cleanth Brooks and Allen Tate: Collected Letters, 1933-1976","description":"\u003cp\u003eOffering all of the extant letters exchanged by two of the twentieth century's most distinguished literary figures, \u003ci\u003eCleanth Brooks and Allen Tate: Collected Letters, 1933-1976\u003c\/i\u003e vividly depicts the remarkable relationship, both professional and personal, between Brooks and Tate over the course of their lifelong friendship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn accomplished poet, critic, biographer, and teacher, Allen Tate had a powerful influence on the literary world of his era. Editor of the \u003ci\u003eFugitive\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eSewanee Review,\u003c\/i\u003e Tate greatly affected the lives and careers of his fellow literati, including Cleanth Brooks. Esteemed coeditor of \u003ci\u003eAn Approach to Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Poetry,\u003c\/i\u003e Brooks was one of the principal creators of the New Criticism. His \u003ci\u003eModern Poetry and the Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Well Wrought Urn,\u003c\/i\u003e as well as his two-volume study of Faulkner, remain among the classics read by any serious student of literature. The correspondence between these two gentlemen-scholars, which began in the 1930s, extended over five decades and covered a vast amount of twentieth-century literary history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the more than 250 letters collected here, the reader will encounter their shared concerns for and responses to the work of their numerous friends and many prominent writers, including T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, and Robert Lowell. Their letters offer details about their own developing careers and also provide striking insight into the group dynamics of the Agrarians, the noteworthy community of southern writers who played so influential a role in the literature of modernism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrooks once said that Tate treated him like a younger brother, and despite great differences between their personalities and characters, these two figures each felt deep brotherly affection for the other. Whether they contain warm invitations for the one to visit the other, genteel or honest commentaries on their families and friends, or descriptions of the vast array of social, professional, and even political activities each experienced, the letters of Brooks and Tate clearly reveal the personalities of both men and the powerful ties of their strong camaraderie.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInvaluable to both students and teachers of literature, \u003ci\u003eCleanth Brooks and Allen Tate\u003c\/i\u003e provides a substantial contribution to the study of twentieth-century American, and particularly southern, literary history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Missouri Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011838820592,"sku":"9780826212078","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780826212078_p0.jpg?v=1763754213","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780826212078","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}