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'''Robert Penn Warren''' (1905-1989) was an American novelist and poet. His works include ''All the King's Men'' (1946), ''Promises'' (1957), and ''The Cave'' (1959). He won Pulitzer Prizes for ''All the King's Men'' and ''Promises''.<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall, New York:  1991.</ref>

'''Robert Penn Warren''' (1905–1989), was an American novelist, poet, teacher, and critic. Born in Guthrie, Kentucky, and educated at Vanderbilt University (BA 1925), Warren became a leader of the "[[Nashville Agrarians]]" in the 1930s. He represent a strong conservative voice in American letters. He won the Pulitzer Prize twice for poetry, ''Brother to Dragons'' (1953), a long, dramatic poem, and ''Promises'' (1957);  and once for his novel about [[Huey Long]] and the corruptions of Southern politics in the 1930s, ''All the King’s Men'' (1946). Warren is the only one who have won [[Pulitzer Prize]]s for both fiction and poetry. ''Warren's greatest dramatic lyrics stand with the best American poetry of the twentieth century, with Frost, Stevens, [[T.S. Eliot|Eliot]], and Hart Crane.'' [http://www.robertpennwarren.com/New%20Book%20by%20Joe%20Millichap.htm] In 1986, he was appointed the nation's first Poet Laureate.  

In 1935, Robert Warren founded along with Charles W. Pipkinand and Cleanth Brooks the literary journal ''The Southern Review''.  

Warren was born April 24, 1905, the oldest of three children of a banker and a schoolteacher.<ref>https://www.robertpennwarren.com/</ref>  He planned to join the Navy, but lost his sight  in one eye when his younger brother hit him with a stone, and could not enlist.<ref>http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/warren/life.htm</ref>  He entered Vanderbilt University, where he was part of a group of conservative poets called the Fugitives, and later earned a master's degree at the University of California and studied at [[Oxford University]].<ref>https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/robert-penn-warren</ref>  He helped the established the "New Criticism," but did not take criticism seriously, and found his poetry and novel-writing more important.<ref>https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/robert-penn-warren</ref>

 

He wrote several interesting novels, including ''Night Rider'' (1939), about the tobacco war, ''All the King's Men'', about an idealistic politician who corrupts everyone around him, ''At Heaven's Gate'' (1943), ''World Enough and Time'' (1950), about a controversial murder trial in Kentucky, ''Band of Angels'' (1956), and ''The Cave'' (1959).<ref>"Walker, Robert Penn." ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>  He also wrote a long narrative poem, considered to be a verse novel, ''Brother to Dragons'' (1953), a historical novel about the murder of a slave, and focused on poetry in his later years.  He died September 15, 1989.

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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. Ghostly Parallels is a close examination of the heart of his poetic corpus-the eight collections published between 1935 and 1976: Thirty-Six Poems; Eleven Poems on the Same Theme; Promises; You, Emperors, and Others; Tale of Time; Incarnations; Or Else; and Can I See Arcturus from Where I Stand? [http://www.robertpennwarren.com/New%20Book%20by%20Randolph.htm]

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. Ghostly Parallels is a close examination of the heart of his poetic corpus-the eight collections published between 1935 and 1976: Thirty-Six Poems; Eleven Poems on the Same Theme; Promises; You, Emperors, and Others; Tale of Time; Incarnations; Or Else; and Can I See Arcturus from Where I Stand? [http://www.robertpennwarren.com/New%20Book%20by%20Randolph.htm]

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== Some Works ==

== Some Works ==

* ''John Brown: The Making of a Martyr'' (1929)

* ''John Brown: The Making of a Martyr'' (1929)

* ''Thirty-six Poems'' (1936)

* ''Thirty-six Poems'' (1936)

* ''New and Selected Poems: 1923 &ndash; 1985'' (1985)

* ''New and Selected Poems: 1923 &ndash; 1985'' (1985)

* ''Portrait of a Father'' (1988)

* ''Portrait of a Father'' (1988)

== External links ==

== External links ==

*[http://www.robertpennwarren.com/biography.htm BIOGRAPHY.]

*[http://www.robertpennwarren.com/biography.htm BIOGRAPHY.]

*[http://www.robertpennwarren.com/New%20Book%20by%20Randolph.htm GHOSTLY PARALLELS.]

*[http://www.robertpennwarren.com/New%20Book%20by%20Randolph.htm GHOSTLY PARALLELS.]

*[http://www.robertpennwarren.com/New%20Book%20by%20Joe%20Millichap.htm Robert Penn Warren after Audubon.]

*[http://www.robertpennwarren.com/New%20Book%20by%20Joe%20Millichap.htm Robert Penn Warren after Audubon.]

*[http://www.vanderbilt.edu/rpw_center/ Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.]

*[http://www.vanderbilt.edu/rpw_center/ Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.]

==Further reading==

==Further reading==

* Steven D. Ealy. "Corruption and Innocence in Robert Penn Warren's Fiction," ''Modern Age''  Volume 47, Number 2; Spring 2005 [http://www.mmisi.org/ma/47_02/ealy.pdf online edition]

* Steven D. Ealy. "Corruption and Innocence in Robert Penn Warren's Fiction," ''Modern Age''  Volume 47, Number 2; Spring 2005 [http://www.mmisi.org/ma/47_02/ealy.pdf online edition]

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