Filled with entertaining anecdotes and personal reflections, this collection of twenty-four conversations with Robert Penn Warren provides an illuminating glimpse of the man and his thoughts on life and literature. Warren's wide interests--history, politics, technological change, teaching, race relations--span a period of more than three decades.
"Perhaps in no literary genre is an author more completely and accurately himself than in an interview," the editors note. "Every attribute of Robert Penn Warren--his folksiness, his wit, his honesty and openness--or, in short, the full...
Filled with entertaining anecdotes and personal reflections, this collection of twenty-four conversations with Robert Penn Warren provides an illum...
Floyd C. Watkins Charles Hubert Watkins Calvin S. Brown
"Yesterday in the Hills" recalls life in North Georgia from the 1890s until World War II and records vanished and vanishing folkways of the region. Here is folklore at its best--seen from the inside and mediated though the heart. "Yesterday in the Hills" is built upon the bedrock of experience and memory, but its sharply drawn characters and beautifully proportioned narrative transcend reminiscence and realistically depict hill country life as it once was.
"Yesterday in the Hills" recalls life in North Georgia from the 1890s until World War II and records vanished and vanishing folkways of the region. He...
Published in 1865, shortly after the end of the Civil War, "Life and Public Services of an Army Straggler "is a fictional account of the misadventures of Will Fishback, Confederate deserter from Georgia, as he wanders the southern countryside he had sworn to protect. In its comic portrayal of the rascally Fishback, "An Army Straggler "pays homage to the forms and dialects of the picaresque frontier folktale.
Published in 1865, shortly after the end of the Civil War, "Life and Public Services of an Army Straggler "is a fictional account of the misadventures...
