Cleanth Brooks, Sin and Expiation, ‘Partisan Review': Summer 1939, vol. vi, 114–16

Brooks (b. 1906), a well-known American critic, was Professor of English at Louisiana State University from 1932 to 1947. His publications include ‘Modern Poetry and the Tradition’ (1939) and ‘The Well Wrought Urn’ (1947). He has written extensively on Eliot and his aesthetic presuppositions have been profoundly influenced by his understanding of both Eliot’s poetry and criticism.