Article: Man of myths; Leslie Fiedler - literary brat.(BOOKS)

Byline: Jeffrey Hart, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

When this book was announced, I could not contain my eagerness to see it. Mark Roydon Winchell, a professor at Clemson University, is the very able biographer of Cleanth Brooks and Donald Davidson, both emphatically Southerners. Brooks (latterly at Yale) is among the most important of the careful-reading so-called New Critics of the '40s and '50s. Among much else, his "Understanding Poetry" and "Understanding Fiction," both written with Robert Penn Warren, educated several generations of university students of literature, not to menton their instructors.

Here, now, however, Mr. Winchell engages ...

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