Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)
Forfatter af All the King's Men
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Robert Penn Warren, the first Poet Laureate of the United States, was an unusually versatile writer who tried his hand at almost every kind of literature. In all of these forms, he achieved recognition and distinction, but it is as a poet, critic, and novelist that he was most widely known. Writing vis mere almost always about his native South, Warren produced 10 novels and a collection of short stories, The Circus in the Attic and Other Stories (1948). By far the most successful of his novels is All the King's Men (1946), the story of a southern politician and demagogue named Willie Stark, which Warren based on the rise and fall of Huey Long. Warren was considered one of the most influential of the New Critics, whose influence on the teaching of literature in American schools and universities during the late 1940s and 1950s could scarcely be overestimated. Because All the King's Men seemed to be the very epitome of what a good work of literature should be in New Critical terms---a complicated but highly readable narrative filled with irony and ambiguity---the novel came to be used widely in courses on modern fiction. It won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Southern Authors Award in 1947. Warren's other novels are disappointing by comparison. Following the success of All the King's Men, however, Warren seemed to turn to more loosely told stories about dramatic and romantic subjects, such as the interracial theme of Band of Angels (1955) or the natural catastrophes that serve as the crisis background for The Cave (1959) and Flood: A Romance of Our Time (1964). Wilderness: A Tale of the Civil War (1961) is an allegory of a man's spiritual quest for truth about himself and the world. Meet Me in the Green Glen (1971), the story of a tragic love affair, seemed to mark a return to the tighter structure and more complex artistry of Warren's earlier novels, but A Place to Come To (1977), his last novel, in which an elderly and renowned scholar who seems to owe much to Warren himself looks back on his family's past in an effort to find the meaning of his life, struck some reviewers as a confused and tired work. Sometime midway through his career as a novelist it is as if Warren stopped thinking of himself as a southern writer in the tradition of William Faulkner and turned instead to Thomas Wolfe for inspiration. Although in retrospect that switch must be regretted, no one can deny the immense influence of Robert Penn Warren on modern letters. Warren's poetry is intellectual, rich in powerful images, and has its roots in the pre-Civil War South. He continued to write impressive poetry almost until the time of his death. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af Robert Penn Warren
Six Centuries of Great Poetry: A Stunning Collection of Classic British Poems from Chaucer to Yeats (1955) — Redaktør — 316 eksemplarer
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, Volume 2: The "Southern Review" Years, 1935-1942 (2000) 13 eksemplarer
American Literature: The Makers and the Making Book d 1914 to the Present (American Literature (St Martins)) (1974) 8 eksemplarer
Robert Penn Warren (3 Book Set) All the King's Men -- World Enough and Time -- Band of Angels. 5 eksemplarer
Modern Rhetoric with Readings by Brooks & Warren 1949 3 eksemplarer
2007 2 eksemplarer
Selected poems, 1923-1943 2 eksemplarer
Ballad of a Sweet Dream of Peace: A Charade for Easter 2 eksemplarer
Best-in-Books: Band of Angels / Hazel Rides Again / Five Fathers of Pepi / Animals and Other People / John Goffe's… 2 eksemplarer
Un lugar a donde llegar 2 eksemplarer
All the King's Men [2006 Movie Tie-In Edition] 2 eksemplarer
Coro de angeles 1 eksemplar
“A Christian Education” 1 eksemplar
UN ENDROIT OU ALLER 1 eksemplar
DREPTATEA LUI JEREMIAH BEAUMONT 1 eksemplar
The Patented Gate and the Mean Hamburger 1 eksemplar
Christmas Gift 1 eksemplar
Evening Hawk [poem] 1 eksemplar
Six poems 1 eksemplar
Racconto del tempo e altre poesie 1923-1971 1 eksemplar
“Bearded Oaks” 1 eksemplar
“Audubon” 1 eksemplar
“American Portrait: Old Style” 1 eksemplar
“Mortal Limit” 1 eksemplar
El caballero de la noche 1 eksemplar
La caverne 1 eksemplar
Les rendez vous de la clairiere 1 eksemplar
Conversations on the craft of poetry 1 eksemplar
Au nom des Noirs - États-Unis, 1964 : au cœur du mouvement pour les droits civiques (2023) 1 eksemplar
The Theory of Literature 1 eksemplar
Two Poems 1 eksemplar
Det store bedrag 1 eksemplar
Thirty-six poems 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Bidragyder — 404 eksemplarer
I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (Library of Southern Civilization) (1930) — Bidragyder — 322 eksemplarer
The Fugitive Poets: Modern Southern Poetry (Southern Classics Series) (1991) — Bidragyder — 111 eksemplarer
Voices in Our Blood: America's Best on the Civil Rights Movement (2001) — Bidragyder — 90 eksemplarer
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Bidragyder — 37 eksemplarer
In Search of the Simple Life: American Voices, Past and Present (1986) — Bidragyder — 35 eksemplarer
The Sun Also Rises / A Farewell to Arms / The Old Man and the Sea (1962) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver — 32 eksemplarer
Rediscoveries: Informal Essays in Which Well-Known Novelists Rediscover Neglected Works of Fiction by One of Their… (1971) — Bidragyder — 27 eksemplarer
The Best Short Stories of 1939 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1939) — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
32 Współczesne Opowiadania Amerykańskie - Tom I — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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Almen Viden
- Andre navne
- Уоррен, Роберт Пенн
- Fødselsdato
- 1905-04-24
- Dødsdag
- 1989-09-15
- Begravelsessted
- Willis Cemetery, Stratton, Vermont, USA
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Guthrie, Kentucky, USA
- Dødssted
- Stratton, Vermont, USA
- Bopæl
- Guthrie, Kentucky, USA
Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
Stratton, Vermont, USA
Nashville, Tennessee, USA - Uddannelse
- Vanderbilt University (BA | 1925)
University of California, Berkeley ( [1926])
Yale University (1928)
Oxford University ( [1930])
Citizens Military Training Corp, Fort Knox, Kentucky
Clarksville High School, Clarksville, Tennessee (vis alle 7)
Guthrie School - Erhverv
- poet
novelist
short-story writer
playwright
literary critic
editor (vis alle 8)
publisher
professor - Relationer
- Clark, Eleanor (echtg.)
Warren, Rosanna (dochter)
Brooks, Cleanth (vriend)
Lytle, Andrew (vriend)
Taylor, Peter Hillsman (vriend)
Erskine, Albert (vriend) (vis alle 10)
Davidson, Donald (leraar)
Jarrell, Randall (leerling)
Mims, Edwin (leraar)
Warren, Noah (kleinzoon) - Organisationer
- The Fugitives
The Agrarians
Fellowship of Southern Writers (charter member)
American Academy of Poets ( [1950])
American Academy of Poets ( [1972])
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1959) (vis alle 12)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1975)
American Philosophical Society (1952)
National Institute of Arts and Letters (1950)
Century Association (1958)
Modern Language Association
The Southern Review (co-founder ∙ editor-in-chief) - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1944-1945)
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (1986-1987)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1980)
Bollingen Prize (1967)
Jefferson Lecture (1974)
Gold Medal for Poetry ( [1985]) (vis alle 27)
Emerson-Thoreau Medal (1975)
Distinguished Alumnus Award ( [1950])
National Arts Foundation Award (1968)
National Medal of Arts (1987)
National Medal of Literature (1970)
Founder's Medalist (1925)
Award for Distinction in Literature ( [1973])
Ten Best Teachers Award ( [1972])
Creative Arts Award ( [1984])
Shelley Memorial Award (1943)
MacArthur Prize (1981)
Wilma and Roswell Messing, Jr., Award ( [1977])
Phi Beta Kappa (1925)
Rhodes Scholar (1928-1930)
Guggenheim Fellowship
Warren-Brooks Award
Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction
Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities (Vanderbilt University)
English Committee of the Board of Overseers of Harvard College (1967-68)
U.S. Naval Academy (declined due to injury)
Only poet to have served twice as U.S. Poet Laureate - Kort biografi
- Robert Penn Warren is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry. He served twice as Poet Laureate of the United States.
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One of the strengths of the book is its portrayal of minor characters and the squalor they inhabit. The jailer Munn Short, for example, tells a story which has no bearing on the novel but which lingers as a tour de force. Another strength is Warren's descriptions of landscape and nature, which are infused with his deep knowledge and appreciation. However - the book is somewhat spoiled by Warren's insistence on portraying Jeremiah Beaumont's inner thoughts, his prevarications, his tortured musings, his diary entries -- all in the name of showing Beaumont to be a man of ideas, and these ideas would prove to be incompatible with the world "made flesh". The last 150 pages were a real drag. In fact, I found myself searching to find a Reader's Digest Condensed version of the book, to no avail, but if ever a book could be made shorter (and better) this is the one. I still praise this book highly, but I was disappointed by all the telling, which overtook the showing. Show, don't tell.… (mere)