Author: Robert Penn Warren
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156012959
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Willie Stark's obsession with political power leads to the ultimate corruption of his gubernatorial administration.
All the King's Men
Author: Robert Penn Warren
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156012959
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Willie Stark's obsession with political power leads to the ultimate corruption of his gubernatorial administration.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156012959
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Willie Stark's obsession with political power leads to the ultimate corruption of his gubernatorial administration.
The Legacy of the Civil War
Author: Robert Penn Warren
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803299273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
In this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He confronts its costs, not only human (six hundred thousand men killed) and economic (beyond reckoning) but social and psychological. He touches on popular misconceptions, including some concerning Abraham Lincoln and the issue of slavery. The war in all its facets "grows in our consciousness," arousing complex emotions and leaving "a gallery of great human images for our contemplation."
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803299273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
In this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He confronts its costs, not only human (six hundred thousand men killed) and economic (beyond reckoning) but social and psychological. He touches on popular misconceptions, including some concerning Abraham Lincoln and the issue of slavery. The war in all its facets "grows in our consciousness," arousing complex emotions and leaving "a gallery of great human images for our contemplation."
Robert Penn Warren Talking
Author: Robert Penn Warren
Publisher: New York : Random House
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Random House
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Portrait Of A Father
Author: Robert Penn Warren
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813156831
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
One of America's great poets writes of his father, lost through death and discovered again through insistent recollection. A death in the family forces a re-sorting and reshaping of all that we can recall of times and people gone from us as we measure our identities by their remembered images. While prowling in the past, Warren is drawn to likenesses between himself and his father, between himself and others of his family. The poet finds that his father too, in his long silent youth, ventured into the writing of poetry, as have so many, but in time put it away for other things. Gradually this elegy for his father becomes Warren's reverie on the many Warrens and Penns who live now only in his memory. We encounter his mother and his mother's mother, his father's Warren line thrown back over three generations, as he draws forth sameness, giving shape and full form and then sharp recognition to family members who were and must yet remain mysteries. Then we see that Warren is delineating the tenuous threads of all our many unsettled and fragmentary American family histories, that he is tracing all our steps from the coast over mountain trails into the dark wilderness to the west. With him, when we stop to consider our loved and lost ones, we realize the delicacy of our accepted relationships. In this autobiographical essay and the accompanying poem sequence that echoes it, "Mortmain," Warren's look into the mystery of the past evokes for us the loss and recovery and wonder that death brings.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813156831
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
One of America's great poets writes of his father, lost through death and discovered again through insistent recollection. A death in the family forces a re-sorting and reshaping of all that we can recall of times and people gone from us as we measure our identities by their remembered images. While prowling in the past, Warren is drawn to likenesses between himself and his father, between himself and others of his family. The poet finds that his father too, in his long silent youth, ventured into the writing of poetry, as have so many, but in time put it away for other things. Gradually this elegy for his father becomes Warren's reverie on the many Warrens and Penns who live now only in his memory. We encounter his mother and his mother's mother, his father's Warren line thrown back over three generations, as he draws forth sameness, giving shape and full form and then sharp recognition to family members who were and must yet remain mysteries. Then we see that Warren is delineating the tenuous threads of all our many unsettled and fragmentary American family histories, that he is tracing all our steps from the coast over mountain trails into the dark wilderness to the west. With him, when we stop to consider our loved and lost ones, we realize the delicacy of our accepted relationships. In this autobiographical essay and the accompanying poem sequence that echoes it, "Mortmain," Warren's look into the mystery of the past evokes for us the loss and recovery and wonder that death brings.
At Heaven's Gate
Author: Robert Penn Warren
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811209335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The second novel by Robert Penn Warren, author of the Pulizter-Prize-winning All The King's Men, is a tour de force and a neglected classic.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811209335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
The second novel by Robert Penn Warren, author of the Pulizter-Prize-winning All The King's Men, is a tour de force and a neglected classic.
Talking with Robert Penn Warren
Author: Floyd C. Watkins
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820312200
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Collects a wide variety of interviews given by the author over the years, including television appearances and conversations with other writers
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820312200
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Collects a wide variety of interviews given by the author over the years, including television appearances and conversations with other writers
The Cave
Author: Robert Penn Warren
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813191553
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
In his sixth novel, The Cave (1959), Robert Penn Warren tells the story of a young man trapped in a cave in fictional Johntown, Tennessee. His predicament becomes the center of national attention as television cameras, promoters, and newscasters converge on the small town to exploit the rescue attempts and the thousands of spectators gathered at the mouth of the cave.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813191553
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
In his sixth novel, The Cave (1959), Robert Penn Warren tells the story of a young man trapped in a cave in fictional Johntown, Tennessee. His predicament becomes the center of national attention as television cameras, promoters, and newscasters converge on the small town to exploit the rescue attempts and the thousands of spectators gathered at the mouth of the cave.
A Robert Penn Warren Reader
Author: Robert Penn Warren
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Understanding Robert Penn Warren
Author: James A. Grimshaw
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570033957
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Grimshaw examines the writer's views about the primacy of self-knowledge and explores the painful and arduous path his protagonists must follow to gain such knowledge and the interrelationship of his artistic endeavors, which were woven together by common thematic concerns - history, time, truth, responsibility, love, hope, and endurance.".
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570033957
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Grimshaw examines the writer's views about the primacy of self-knowledge and explores the painful and arduous path his protagonists must follow to gain such knowledge and the interrelationship of his artistic endeavors, which were woven together by common thematic concerns - history, time, truth, responsibility, love, hope, and endurance.".
Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren
Author: Robert Penn Warren
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807126776
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
John Burt’s Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren is more broadly representative of Warren’s poetry than any previous selected gathering. More than two hundred poems from every phase grace the volume, a vehicle ideal for sampling—or soaking in—the finest of Warren’s rich output. With each poem, Burt has carefully located the version that constitutes Warren’s final revision. His introduction gives an eloquent overview of the poet’s career, touching on every published book of verse and highlighting significant lines. A “selected” collection in the truest sense, featuring several previously unpublished pieces, this treasure is at once new and familiar. At the heart of Warren’s poetry is a celebration of man’s intellect and imagination, his integral place within nature, and his relationship to time and the past; ultimately, joy coexists with the knowledge of life’s many mysteries, including its tragedies. Selected Poems, a generous survey and a convenient compendium, is the shining portal to this greatly gifted poet.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 9780807126776
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
John Burt’s Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren is more broadly representative of Warren’s poetry than any previous selected gathering. More than two hundred poems from every phase grace the volume, a vehicle ideal for sampling—or soaking in—the finest of Warren’s rich output. With each poem, Burt has carefully located the version that constitutes Warren’s final revision. His introduction gives an eloquent overview of the poet’s career, touching on every published book of verse and highlighting significant lines. A “selected” collection in the truest sense, featuring several previously unpublished pieces, this treasure is at once new and familiar. At the heart of Warren’s poetry is a celebration of man’s intellect and imagination, his integral place within nature, and his relationship to time and the past; ultimately, joy coexists with the knowledge of life’s many mysteries, including its tragedies. Selected Poems, a generous survey and a convenient compendium, is the shining portal to this greatly gifted poet.