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Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935.
Jul 25, 2023 · Only two monographs are fully focused on Warren’s literary criticism, Beck 2006 and Millichap 2021. Beck works her way carefully through all of Warren’s literary criticism, while Millichap concentrates on the writer’s later, more personal critical work, which evolved in the 1970s. Beck, Charlotte H. Robert Penn Warren: Critic.
A distinguished poet, novelist, critic, and teacher, Robert Penn Warren won virtually every major award given to writers in the United States and was the only person to receive a Pulitzer Prize in both fiction (once) and poetry (twice). Described by Newsweek reviewer Annalyn Swan as “America’s dean of letters,” Warren was among the last ...
CRITICISM OF ROBERT PENN WARREN: A SELECTED CHECKLIST MAURICE BEEBE and ERIN MARCUS The Warren checklist differs from earlier MFS checklists only in that it is divided into three main sections instead of the usual two. The first part lists general studies of Warren and his work—his fiction, poetry, and criticism. The second
Jun 25, 2020 · Many of Robert Penn Warren’s (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) stories feature an adult protagonist’s introspective, guilty recollections of imperishable childhood events, of things done or left undone or simply witnessed with childish innocence.
Jun 28, 2018 · Warren’s early novels, particularly Night Rider, All the King’s Men, and World Enough and Time, which critics generally agree are his best, trace a pattern of increasing complexity in the theme of people’s vacillation between the fantasy of dreams and the reality of facts.
Robert Penn Warren was an American novelist, poet, critic, and teacher, best-known for his treatment of moral dilemmas in a South beset by the erosion of its traditional, rural values. He became the first poet laureate of the United States in 1986.
