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24 conversations with Robert Penn Warren including a self-interview, television appearances and discussions with writers such as Flannery O'Connor, Ralph Ellison and William Styron. The conversations cover a wide range…
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Shows how Robert Penn Warren’s work, his fiction, poetry, literary criticism, historical and personal essays, journalism, is shaped largely by the circumstances not only of his birth and early career…
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Robert Penn Warren achieved excellence in a broad range of genres: poetry; novels; plays; critical works; and historical essays. This collection of essays assesses his legacy within these genres, with…
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William Bedford Clark
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 experiment in democracy, showing how…
Victor H. Strandberg
Though it has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize, the poetry of Robert Penn Warren still is not widely or well understood.
This award-winning multi-volume series is dedicated to making literature and its creators better understood and more accessible to students and interested readers, while satisfying the standards of librarians, teachers and…
Long recognized as one of America’s foremost men of letters, Robert Penn Warren continues to dazzle us with his many-sided genius. A list of Warren’s published works, 1929-1980, and a…
Marshall Walker
Best known as author of All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren has been called ‘the pentathlon champion’ of American literature. In an age of specialization he published, over a…
Robert Penn Warren
In this volume John Burt, Warren’s legal executor, has assembled every poem Warren ever published (with the exception of Brother to Dragons ). There are textual notes, lists of emendations…
John Burt
Robert Penn Warren has distinguished himself in many areas of endeavor-as a poet, a novelist, a critic, and an observer of American history and politics. In this book, John Burt…
This collection of poems is arranged in chronological order, from Warren’s darker, more self-consciously formal poems of the 1920s and 1930s to a looser style and a fusion of personal…
Szczesiul
An extremely insightful study of the relationship between Warren’s creative practice and his evolving attitudes on race. –Ernest Suarez, Catholic University of America
Nobody before Szczesiul has been able to…
Leonard Casper
Victor Strandberg
Warren’s major theme–whether man can live on a purely naturalistic level–is seen as a parallel to the major intellectual currents of American literature in the past 25 years.
A collection of essays exploring Robert Penn Warren and his collaborations with other writers.
Professor of French Randolph Paul Runyon (Miami University)
A study of the American writer, Robert Penn Warren, which gives a close reading of his ten novels as well as the short story collection, and demonstrates the profound unity…
Randolph Paul Runyon
Robert Penn Warren’s reputation as a poet, though always considerable, has soared in the last decade, as indicated by his recent selection as America’s first poet laureate.
Floyd C. Watkins
Taking a new approach to the study of Robert Penn Warren’s imposing and still growing poetic canon, Floyd C.
Cecilia S Donohue
In presenting an innovative and timely analysis of the novels of one of America’s foremost modernists, the author draws on theories of women’s speech, voice, and self-realization to illuminate Robert…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Robert Penn Warren’s Blackberry Winter, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
Jonathon S. Cullick
A comprehensive survey of the biographical narratives of Robert Penn Warren. It traces a clear development towards autobiography in Warren’s career and applies narratives theory to that trend to discover…
This volume of personal correspondence offers a self-portrait of a fledgling artist. They take Warren from the awkwardness of an emerging genius during his fugitive student years at Vanderbilt to…
Provides an indispensable glimpse of Warren the writer and the man, covering a crucial decade in his life. Thoroughly annotated and scrupulously researched, this volume captures Warren in an extraordinary…
Jonathan S. Cullick
In Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men: A Reader’s Companion, author Jonathan S. Cullick considers the themes of this famous novel within the context of America’s current political climate.
Randolph Runyon
America’s most eminent man of letters in his later years, and certainly one of the greatest Southern writers, Robert Penn Warren has increasingly come to be known for his poetry…
Randy Hendricks
The wandering figure was ever present in Robert Penn Warren’s work. Randy Hendricks here explores the centrality of the theme of exile as a way of understanding Warren’s relation to…
A Study Guide for Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
This is a new release of the original 1961 edition.
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Warren’s first novel, set during the tobacco wars that raged in Kentucky and Tennessee in the early part of this century. Percy Munn is one of Warren’s innocent idealists whose…
Warren’s first book, a biography that foreshadows the themes developed in novels like All the King’s Men, portrays the flawed idealist whose violent seizure of the Harper’s Ferry arsenal led…
Amantha Starr, born and raised by a doting father on a Kentucky plantation in the years before the Civil War, is the heroine of this powerfully dramatic novel. Band of…
This novel is based on the murder case known as the Kentucky Tragedy . In 1826, Jeremiah Beaumont stood trial for murdering his benefactor and father figure, the politician Colonel…
Originally published in 1963, this powerful novel spools a dramatic storyline whilst probing the deeper philosophical search for self-definition in modern life. It begins with the arrival of two men…
Volume four of the Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren covers a crucial time of personal and professional rejuvenation in Warren’s life. During the fifteen-year period spanned by this correspondence…
The years 1969 and 1979 bookend a volatile decade in American history. As an articulate witness to the era of the Vietnam War, Watergate, Jimmy Carter, and the national malaise…
Offers rich insights into the closing chapter of Robert Penn Warren’s professional and personal life, making it an essential resource for understanding the full scope of the author’s contribution to…
Becoming Bourgeois is the first study to focus on what historians have come to call the middling sort, the economic group falling between yeoman farmers and the planter class that…
We encounter his mother and his mother’s mother, his father’s Warren line thrown back over three generations, as he draws forth sameness, giving shape and full form and then sharp…
In his sixth novel, The Cave (1959), Robert Penn Warren tells the story of a young man trapped in a cave in fictional Johntown, Tennessee.
The battle for the Alamo was an epic event in the fight for Texas independence from Mexico. This title presents the accounts of these most thrilling moments in the history…
All the King’s Men is considered the finest novel ever written on American politics. Set in the 1930s, this book traces the rise and fall of Willie Stark, who resembles…
One of the great classics of American fiction is now available in this restored edition that presents it as it was originally written. The winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize…
In these two essays, one of America’s most honored writers fastens on the interrelation of American democracy and poetry and the concept of selfhood vital to each. I really don’t…
This revised poem recalls events leading to and resulting from the 1811 murder of a young slave by Thomas Jefferson’s nephew.
