The King's Servants

…He published many collections of poems, including Thirty-Six Poems (1935) and Selected Poems (1944), which overflowed with the wild vitality of the South, using free verse forms. He also excelled in novels, such as The King's Men (1946), which won the Pulitzer Prize, depicting the psychological conflicts of people in the midst of the corruption of the Southern political world, and consistently pursued the problems of the South from an ethical and psychological perspective. As a member of the New Criticism movement, he published Essays (1958), as well as Understanding Poetry (1938) and Understanding Fiction (1943), co-authored with C. Brooks, which were highly praised as literary textbooks based on the method of New Criticism. …

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…自由な詩形で南部の野性的な生気をみなぎらせ，《詩36編》(1935)，《詩選集》(1944)など，数多くの詩集を発表した。小説にもすぐれ，ピュリッツァー賞を得た《王の家来たち》(1946)では南部の政界の汚濁のなかでの人間の心理的葛藤を描くなど，一貫して南部の諸問題を倫理的心理的な視点から追求しようとした。〈新批評〉派の一人として《評論集》(1958)のほか，C.ブルックスとの共著《詩の理解》(1938)と《小説の理解》(1943)は新批評の方法による文学教科書として高い評価を受けた。…

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