A Brief Introduction to the Author of Novel Appreciation

Klein Brooks (1906-1994), a famous American literary critic and one of the representatives of new criticism, founded the formalism criticism theory. He taught at Yale University and contributed to the reform of poetry teaching in American higher education. Representative works include Modern Poetry and Tradition (1939) and Good Writing (1947). He co-authored Understanding Poetry (1938) and Understanding Fiction (1943) with Warren, and co-founded Southern Review (1935-65433), the most influential literary magazine in the United States at that time.

Robert penn warren (1905— 1989), a famous American poet, novelist and critic, is a member of new criticism and teaches at Yale University. He has written and published a large number of poems and nine novels, and his works are often aimed at the moral confusion caused by the erosion of traditional values in southern rural areas. The novel The King's Man (1946) and the poem The Promise (1957) both won Pulitzer prizes. The King's Men is new criticism's masterpiece. The collection of short stories "Circus in the Attic" (1948) includes the famous "Blackberry Winter". He won the National Book Award and the Paulingen Poetry Award, and became the first poet laureate in the United States in 1986.