"Trying to make contact": "Mortmain" as pre-text for Robert Penn Warren's Portrait of a Father.(Critical essay)

The Mississippi Quarterly | December 22, 2004| | Copyright

JOSEPH BLOTNER'S ROBERT PENN WARREN: A BIOGRAPHY (2002) TAKES AS its starting point the early years of Warren's father, Robert Franklin Warren. The elder Warren was born in southwestern Kentucky on February 14, 1869, son to a Confederate officer who fought at Shiloh. Robert Franklin Warren had probably little more than a sixth-grade education, but he taught himself Greek and harbored dreams of becoming a lawyer and a poet. With the self-denial that was to be the trademark of his adulthood, he fashioned a much less adventurous career as a banker and merchant in order to ...

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