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| − | '''Robert Penn Warren''' (1905–1989), was an American novelist, poet 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, Eliot, and Hart Crane.'' [http://www.robertpennwarren.com/New%20Book%20by%20Joe%20Millichap.htm] | + | '''Robert Penn Warren''' (1905–1989), was an American novelist, poet 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 1935, Robert Warren and Cleanth Brooks founded the literary journal ''The Southern Review''. | In 1935, Robert Warren and Cleanth Brooks founded the literary journal ''The Southern Review''. | ||
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Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989), was an American novelist, poet 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 Prizes for both fiction and poetry. Warren's greatest dramatic lyrics stand with the best American poetry of the twentieth century, with Frost, Stevens, Eliot, and Hart Crane. [1]
In 1935, Robert Warren and Cleanth Brooks founded the literary journal The Southern Review.
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? [2]
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Further reading
- Steven D. Ealy. "Corruption and Innocence in Robert Penn Warren's Fiction," Modern Age Volume 47, Number 2; Spring 2005 online edition