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Robert Penne
Developed at Philadelphia?s world-renowned Wills Eye Hospital, the Color Atlas and Synopsis of Clinical Ophthalmology series covers the most clinically relevant aspects of ophthalmology in a highly visual, easy-to-use format…
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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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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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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A tale of rediscovery and a celebration of the everyday miracle of homemade bread
Over the course of a year, Robert Penn learns how to plant, harvest, thresh and mill…
Developed at Philadelphia’s famed Wills Eye Institute, this series presents guidelines for the differential diagnosis and treatment of a range of ophthalmic problems. Each title features more than 250 illustrations…
The story of how one man cut down a single tree to see how many things could be made from it.
From Dean to Epping and Hatfield to Sherwood, this beautiful tribute to the natural history of our iconic British woodlands covers the natural history of our forests, the unique species…
A tale of rediscovery and a celebration of the everyday miracle of homemade bread, from the bestselling author of The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees
Over the course…
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The author has ridden a bike most days of his life. He rides to get to work, to bathe in air and sunshine, to stay sane and to feel free…
Features a tale of craftsmanship for nature lovers and rugged outdoor types. This book chronicles how the urge to understand and appreciate trees still runs through us all like grain…
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…
Robert Penn,Rob Penn
Penn, an avid cyclist, takes readers along on his journey to build his dream bike–a customized machine that reflects his joy of cycling. En route, Penn brilliantly explores the culture…
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…
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…
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.
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.
This revised poem recalls events leading to and resulting from the 1811 murder of a young slave by Thomas Jefferson’s nephew.
