Warren, Robert Penn
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Warren, Robert Penn (1905–89), American poet, novelist, and critic. His novels include
All the King's Men (1946), a study of a power-crazed, corrupt Southern politician, Willie Stark;
Band of Angels (1955);
The Cave (1959); and
Meet Me in the Green Glen (1971). His volumes of poetry include
Selected Poems 1923–43 (1944),
Promises (1957),
Now and Then: Poems 1976–1978 (1978), and
Portrait of a Father (1988). His critical works are associated with the
New Criticism, and include two anthologies-with-commentaries, compiled in collaboration with Cleanth
Brooks,
Understanding Poetry (1938) and
Understanding Fiction (1943).
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Lonelier than God: Robert Penn Warren and the southern exile. (Review-essay: Robert Penn Warren: the Southern Exile).(includes review of 'The Legacy of Robert Penn Warren' edited by David Madden)(Review)
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 12/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; Lonelier than God: Robert Penn Warren and the Southern Exile, by...40.00 cloth; The Legacy of Robert Penn Warren, edited by David Madden with...POPULARITY like death. After Robert Penn Warren's passing in 1989, a veritable...
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Left alone in modernity: Robert Penn Warren and contemporary criticism.(2 books on Robert Penn Warren)
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 6/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; Understanding Robert Penn Warren, by James A. Grimshaw, Jr...The Biographical Narratives of Robert Penn Warren, by Jonathan S. Cullick...95 paper. AROUND THE TIME OF ROBERT PENN WARREN'S death in 1989, the summing...
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Pulitzer Winner Robert Penn Warren Honored on U.S. Postage Stamp.
PR Newswire; 4/22/2005; 700+ words
; ...Poet, novelist and educator Robert Penn Warren was honored today by the U...issue ceremony was held at the Robert Penn Warren Museum in Guthrie, KY, Warren...celebrate the 100th anniversary of Robert Penn Warren's birth by featuring him on...
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Robert Penn Warren: "Mad for Poetry".(Interview)(Interview)
Magazine article from: Southern Cultures; 12/22/2004; ; 700+ words
; By any measure Robert Penn Warren is one of America's most prominent...mentioned that they had also invited Robert Penn Warren and his wife Eleanor Clark...referred to a male hog. I visited Robert Penn Warren and Eleanor Clark each year...
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Author Robert Penn Warren Honored on U.S. Postage Stamp.
PR Newswire; 4/4/2005; 700+ words
; ...April 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Robert Penn Warren -- the first official poet...ceremony will take place at the Robert Penn Warren Museum at 122 Cherry St...life and accomplishments of Robert Penn Warren," said Ann Wright, Kentuckiana...
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Notes on an unpublished Robert Penn Warren essay.
Magazine article from: The Southern Review; 9/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...looking at the manuscripts of Robert Penn Warren's two early, unpublished...in James W. Grimshaw's Robert Penn Warren: A Descriptive Bibliography...at the annual meeting of the Robert Penn Warren Circle in Bowling Green, Kentucky...
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Recent scholarship on Robert Penn Warren.(Poems of Pure Imagination: Robert Penn Warren and the Romantic Tradition; Making History: The Biographical Narratives of Robert Penn Warren; Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, Volume One: The Apprentice Years, 1924-1934) (book review)
Magazine article from: The Southern Literary Journal; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; Poems of Pure Imagination: Robert Penn Warren and the Romantic Tradition...The Biographical Narratives of Robert Penn Warren. By Jonathan S. Cullick...45.00. Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, Volume One: The Apprentice...
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"Christ, start again!": Robert Penn Warren's provisional art.(Lonelier Than God: Robert Penn Warren and the Southern Exile)(The Legacy of Robert Penn Warren)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Southern Literary Journal; 3/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; Lonelier Than God: Robert Penn Warren and the Southern Exile. By...40.00. The Legacy of Robert Penn Warren. Ed. David Madden. Introduction...already mentioned: I imagine Robert Penn Warren would have liked knowing that...
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Robert Penn Warren: a bibliographical survey, 1986-1993.(Special Issue: Robert Pennn Warren)
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 12/22/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...commemorating his eightieth birthday, Robert Penn Warren was quickly challenged for a...previously published nature poems. A Robert Penn Warren Reader (Random House, 1987...collected in Joseph Millichap's Robert Penn Warren: A Study of the Short Fiction...
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Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, Volume One: The Apprentice Years, 1924-1934.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 6/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, Volume One: The Apprentice...VOLUME of the Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren was "to balance the virtues...to come--the ways in which Robert Penn Warren would unfold as a man and a...
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Robert Penn Warren
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Robert Penn Warren Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), American man of letters, was dedicated to art as a way of exploring the meaning of contemporary existence. Writer and poet Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) was born in Guthrie, Kentucky...
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Warren, Robert Penn
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Warren, Robert Penn (1905–89), born in Kentucky...Yale and as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Warren, while establishing himself as an author...the Attic (1947) collects stories. Warren's poetry, first marked by metaphysical...
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All the King's Men
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Producer: Robert Rossen; screenplay: Robert Rossen from the novel by Robert Penn Warren; photography: Burnett Guffey; editors...political films of all time. It is based on Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the...
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Eudora Welty
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...themes. Other critics responded favorably, including Robert Penn Warren, who wrote that in Welty's work, "the items of...seminal 1944 essay on The Wide Net, and Other Stories, Robert Penn Warren located the essence of Welty's fictional technique...
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The 1940s: The Arts: Publications
Book article from: American Decades
...J.: Princeton Book, 1949). Robert Lowell, Land of Unlikeness (Cummington...Wittenborn, Schultz, 1945); Robert Motherwell, The Dada Painters...Wittenborn, Schultz, 1946); Robert Penn Warren, All the Kings Men (New York...
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