A beloved university teacher and an esteemed literary critic, Austin Warren (18991986) was also an extraordinary epistolary artist. During a long lifetime, he produced a steady stream of letters to friends and colleagues, adjutants and auditors; all his letters evinced the concerns of a fully engaged writer seeking and finding his vocation. These letters are not simply those of a man of letters, but also of a man in search of his interior self. The Letters of Austin Warren enables a reader to perceive what epistolary art signifies, and to appreciate the rehabilitative powers and possibilities...
A beloved university teacher and an esteemed literary critic, Austin Warren (18991986) was also an extraordinary epistolary artist. During a long life...