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The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry is a 1947 collection of essays by Cleanth Brooks. It is considered a seminal text[1] in the New Critical school of literary criticism. The title contains an allusion to the fourth stanza of John Donne's poem, "The Canonization", which is the primary subject of the first chapter of the book.
- ^ Gerald Graff, Poetic Statement and Critical Dogma, 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980, (pp. 87-111)