This volume of personal correspondence takes Warren from the awkwardness of an emerging genius during his fugitive student years at Vanderbilt to the brink of producing great work in a newly appointed post at Louisiana State University.
This volume of personal correspondence takes Warren from the awkwardness of an emerging genius during his fugitive student years at Vanderbilt to the ...
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Continuing where Volume One of the Selected Letters left off, the missives from Warren's Baton Rouge years show the young author exploring and testing the boundaries of his genius on a number of simultaneous fronts. Editing the Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks (a colleague on the English faculty at Louisiana State University) was the centre of his working life and it offered an almost immediate springboard to prominence on both sides of the Atlantic. He also attended to his own writing and not only emerged as a celebrated poet with the publication of Thirty-six Poems in 1936 and Eleven...
Continuing where Volume One of the Selected Letters left off, the missives from Warren's Baton Rouge years show the young author exploring and testing...
This collection of largely previously unpublished letters and newly discovered material provides an indispensable glimpse of Robert Penn Warren, the writer and the man. It documents Warren's time at the University of Minnesota, his writing and publication of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the King's Men, his appointment as Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress, and his divorce from Emma "Cinina" Brescia and subsequent marriage to the writer Eleanor Clark. The period 1943-52 also saw the publication of "A Poem of Pure Imagination"; World Enough and Time; The Ballad of Billie...
This collection of largely previously unpublished letters and newly discovered material provides an indispensable glimpse of Robert Penn Warren, the w...
In 1976 -- the bicentennial year -- Robert Penn Warren told Bill Moyers that he was "in love with America" but his love for the nation was more often than not troubled and angry. Warren once remarked that "any intelligent person is inclined to criticize his country more strongly than he will criticize anything else. And he should It's a way of criticizing himself, too.... Trying to live more intelligently, and more fully." In The American Vision of Robert Penn Warren, a noted Warren scholar traces the evolution of our first poet laureate's distinctive stance toward the American...
In 1976 -- the bicentennial year -- Robert Penn Warren told Bill Moyers that he was "in love with America" but his love for the nation was more oft...
First published in 1956, "Segregation" is a collection of Robert Penn Warren's informal conversations with southerners in the wake of the "Brown v. Board of Education" decision. Warren, who in his own writings often explored the theme of race in American life, traveled through his native region to talk with scores of individuals--taxi drivers, NAACP leaders, members of White Citizens groups, college students, preachers--to report their responses to the Court's decision.
First published in 1956, "Segregation" is a collection of Robert Penn Warren's informal conversations with southerners in the wake of the "Brown v. Bo...
These are poems that range in subject and setting from the profane to the sacred. Rooted in the life and culture of the South and Southwest and employing a variety of forms and voices, they address the mysteries of the past, personal and collective, and survey the possibilities and liabilities of the present. Whether conversational or incantatory, each strives to approximate music, in keeping with the author's insistence that dancer and dance be one.
These are poems that range in subject and setting from the profane to the sacred. Rooted in the life and culture of the South and Southwest and emp...
