Cleanth Brooks oral history interview, 1992.

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Cleanth Brooks oral history interview, 1992.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/244443354

In the interview, Brooks discusses his family background; grammar school in rural Tennessee; football; his education at Vanderbilt; Robert Penn Warren, his friend and adviser; Rhodes Scholarship study at Oxford; Charles Pipkin; teaching at LSU beginning in 1932; the LSU English Dept.; collaborative work with Warren in textual criticism; work on Southern Review and its demise; and Southern Review's predecessor, The Southwestern Review. Brooks describes LSU politics; scandal and reform surrounding the career of LSU President, James Monroe Smith; the tenures of William A. Read and Thomas Kirby, chairs of the English Dept.; Katherine Anne Porter; and Eudora Welty.

2 sound cassettes (2 hours);Transcript (81 p.)

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7132709

Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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