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An introduction to the Southern Critics for those who donot know them. Dr. Cowan has concentrated on the three founders of theschool--Ransom, Tate, and Davidson--because it was in their minds andimagination that the movement took form. ... Read more

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Robert Penn Warren, the first U.S. PoetLaureate, has received every honor this country can bestow on a writer. Warrenhas written fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and has proven to be one of themost versatile writers in modern times. Now, seven original essays on Warren'swriting, written by leading scholars and students, have been brought togetherin one volume.In Warren's fiction sloth, or acedia, is the deadliest of sins. FrancesBixler examines this theme as it courses through five novels. WorldEnough and Time and The Cave both are analyzed inchapters of their own. Warren's volume of poetry Altitudes and Extensions isgiven a close reading, while his nonfiction works, particularly TheLegacy of the Civil War and Jefferson Davis Gets His CitizenshipBack , are also critiqued.The breadth and depth of Robert Penn Warren's canon of work are illustratedby the essays collected by James A. Grimshaw, Jr. Although many books have beenwritten on Warren and his work, to cover such a wide range of his work in onevolume is a rare achievement.James A. Grimshaw, Jr., is a professor in, and head of, the Department ofLiterature and Languages at East Texas State University. His publicationsinclude Robert Penn Warren: A Descriptive Bibliography andRobert Penn Warren's ... Read more

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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 period of some sixty years, biography, ten novels, short stories, poetry in several kinds, major criticism, socio-historical comment and a play. Deeply a Southerner, he emerged as the most versatile and productive member of the Fugitive Group who met in Nashville, Tennessee between 1915 and 1928 and included Allen Tate and John Crowe Ransom. As Tate predicted after the young Warren's poems began to appear in the group's journal, The Fugitive, 'that boy's a wonder - has more sheer genius than any of us; watch him: his work from now on will have what none of us can achieve - power'. Warren's work won wide-ranging critical acclaim including Pulitzer Prizes for fiction and poetry. In 1986 he became the USA's first Poet Laureate. He died in 1989. 'Makes a sound case for regarding Warren as the most accomplished and substantial among living American writers. The most comprehensive, informed and rewarding book on Warren to appear to date'. Richard Gray, Journal of American Studies, December 1980 'You have written with great and graceful clarity and persuasiveness and you have delineated what I hope is my history. I don't know how to thank you. But I can thank my luck for you.' Robert Penn Warren in a letter to the author. ... Read more

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These essays on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and poet explore every aspect of Robert Penn Warren's work; the persistent themes that run throughout his poetry and his fiction; the achievement of such major novels as All the King's Men, Band of Angels, and World Enough and Time; and his novel in verse, Brother to Dragons. Warren's own essay, "Knowledge and the Image of Man"--a defense of man's right to be himself, to be a man--is included, as is the complete transcript of the Paris Review interview with Warren by Ralph Ellison and Eugene Walter. ... Read more

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Webster's bibliographic and event-based timelines are comprehensive in scope, covering virtually all topics, geographic locations and people. They do so from a linguistic point of view, and in the case of this book, the focus is on "Robert Penn Warren," including when used in literature (e.g. all authors that might have Robert Penn Warren in their name). As such, this book represents the largest compilation of timeline events associated with Robert Penn Warren when it is used in proper noun form. Webster's timelines cover bibliographic citations, patented inventions, as well as non-conventional and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities in usage. These furthermore cover all parts of speech (possessive, institutional usage, geographic usage) and contexts, including pop culture, the arts, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This "data dump" results in a comprehensive set of entries for a bibliographic and/or event-based timeline on the proper name Robert Penn Warren, since editorial decisions to include or exclude events is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under "fair use" conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. ... Read more

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The two men chose to come to the doomed town.The woman chose to live there in the shadow of an old scandal.The three were prisoners of their pasts, pasts that were scheduled to disappear like the town itself under the ravaging flood waters of a man-made dam.Robert Penn Warren portrays the life of a vanishing Southern town in his beautiful new novel - an epic chronicle of guilt and redemption. ... Read more