Cleanth Brooks's Cliques
The Southernists
These folks just loved them some Southern literature. Tennessee Williams, Katherine Anne Porter, and William Faulkner were among their favorites. Look, you'll have to forgive them for getting a lit...
The Eliotists
Any New Critic worth his or her—but more likely his—salt loved T.S. Eliot, and especially his masterpiece "The Waste Land." Every freaking word in that poem is working, pulling its own weight....