Robert Penn Warren

Author : Robert Penn Warren
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156012959
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All the King's Men written by Robert Penn Warren and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willie Stark's obsession with political power leads to the ultimate corruption of his gubernatorial administration.

Author : Robert Penn Warren
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803299273
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of the Civil War written by Robert Penn Warren and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-11 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.”

Author : James A. Grimshaw
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570033957
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Robert Penn Warren written by James A. Grimshaw and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.".

Author : Robert Penn Warren
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811209335
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book At Heaven's Gate written by Robert Penn Warren and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Robert Penn Warren
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813156831
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portrait Of A Father written by Robert Penn Warren and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Stephen Drury Smith
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1595589821
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free All Along written by Stephen Drury Smith and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featured in the New Yorker’s “Page-Turner” One of Mashable's “17 books every activist should read in 2019” “This is an expression not of people who are suddenly freed of something, but people who have been free all along.” —Ralph Ellison, speaking with Robert Penn Warren A stunning collection of previously unpublished interviews with key figures of the black freedom struggle by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author In 1964, in the height of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and poet Robert Penn Warren set out with a tape recorder to interview leaders of the black freedom struggle. He spoke at length with luminaries such as James Baldwin, Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Ralph Ellison, and Roy Wilkins, eliciting reflections and frank assessments of race in America and the possibilities for meaningful change. In Harlem, a fifteen-minute appointment with Malcolm X unwound into several hours of vivid conversation. A year later, Penn Warren would publish Who Speaks for the Negro?, a probing narrative account of these conversations that blended his own reflections with brief excerpts and quotations from his interviews. Astonishingly, the full extent of the interviews remained in the background and were never published. The audiotapes stayed largely unknown until recent years. Free All Along brings to life the vital historic voices of America’s civil rights generation, including writers, political activists, religious leaders, and intellectuals. A major contribution to our understanding of the struggle for justice and equality, these remarkable long-form interviews are presented here as original documents that have pressing relevance today.

Author : Robert Penn Warren
Publisher : New York : Random House
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert Penn Warren Talking written by Robert Penn Warren and published by New York : Random House. This book was released on 1980 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Penn Warren
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781258136147
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Brown written by Robert Penn Warren and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrait of the tormented liberator by America's first poet laureate.

Author : Robert Penn Warren
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807126769
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Garrison Tales from Tonquin written by Robert Penn Warren and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?

Author : Robert Penn Warren
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674196261
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Poetry written by Robert Penn Warren and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these two essays, one of America's most honored writers fastens on the interrelation of American democracy and poetry and the concept of selfhood vital to each. "I really don't want to make a noise like a pundit," Mr. Warren declares, "What I do want to do is to return us--and myself most of all--to a scrutiny of our own experience of our own world." Indeed, Democracy and Poetry offers one of the most pertinent and strongly personal meditations on our condition to have appeared in recent letters. Our native "poetry," that is, literature and art, in general, is a social document, is "diagnostic," and has often been a corrosive criticism of our democracy, Mr. Warren argues. Persuasively, and movingly, he shows that all of "art" and all that goes into the making of democracy require a free and responsible self. Yet the American experience has been one of the decay of the notion of self. Our astounding success jeopardized what we promised to create--the free man. For a century and a half the conception of the self has been dwindling, separating itself from traditional values, moral identity, and a secure relation with community. Lonely heroes in a bankrupt civilization, then protest, despair, aimlessness, and violence, have marked our literature. The anguish of Robert Penn Warren's own poetic vision of art and democracy is soothed only by his belief that poetry--the making of art can nourish and at least do something toward the rescue of democracy; he shows how art can be- come a healer, can be "therapeutic." In the face of disintegrative forces set loose in a business and technetronic society, it is poetry that affirms the notion of the self. It is a model of the organized self, an emblem of the struggle for the achieving self, and of the self in a community. More and more as our modern technetronic society races toward the abolition of the self, and diverges from a culture created to enhance the notion of selfhood, poetry becomes indispensable. Compelling, resonant, memorable, Democracy and Poetry is a major testament not only to the vitality of poetry, but also to a faith in democracy.