What to Read After The well wrought urn
Readers who loved The well wrought urn by Cleanth Brooks keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The well wrought urn is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The well wrought urn
Anatomy of criticism
The great code
Mimesis
The allegory of love
The sense of an ending
Culture and anarchy; an essay in political and social criticism
The act of reading
Rhyme's reason
Reading for the plot
The anxiety of influence
A glossary of literary terms
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century
Poetic meter and poetic form
Selected prose of T. S. Eliot
Studies in classic American literature
Fearful symmetry
A preface to Paradise lost
Practical Criticism
Seven Types of Ambiguity
The meaning of meaning
Validity in interpretation
The Pound era.
Postmodernist Fiction
Northrop Frye on Shakespeare