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  Robert Penn Warren's Life and Career
ARREN, Robert Penn (24 Apr. 1905-15 Sept. 1989), author and educator, was born in Guthrie, Kentucky, the son of Robert Franklin Warren, a businessman, and Anna Ruth Penn, a schoolteacher.
Warren's matriculation at Vanderbilt coincided with a gathering of young writers in Nashville, men brought together by an interest in writing poetry and a nostalgia for the culture of the agrarian South.
Warren's college roommate, Allen Tate, and one of his teachers, John Crowe Ransom, were at the beginning of their distinguished literary careers.
www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/s_z/warren/life.htm   (1817 words)

  
 Robert Penn Warren - MSN Encarta
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), American novelist, poet, and critic, whose work reflects his concern for maintaining human dignity in the face of corruption and abuse of power.
Born in Guthrie, Kentucky, Warren was educated at Vanderbilt University and the University of California.
Warren is best known for his novel All the King's Men (1946), a character study of a powerful Southern governor resembling the Louisiana politician Huey P. Long.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761575746/Robert_Warren.html   (449 words)

  
 All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren Information
Robert Penn Warren, was an American novelist, poet, critic, and teacher who stressed the maintenance of human dignity against corruption and abuse of power.
Warren was born in Guthrie, Kentucky in 1905.
Warren was educated at Vanderbilt University and the University of California and in 1930 received a Rhodes Scholarship for study at the University of Oxford.
www.unc.edu /~siriny/kingmen/rpninfo.htm   (417 words)

  
 BookPage Nonfiction Review: Robert Penn Warren
Warren was able to achieve as much as he did while overcoming formidable obstacles -- the loss of sight in his left eye and a difficult and painful first marriage.
Warren had a remarkable capacity for friendship, and he was in touch with these men all of their lives.
Warren continued to be an outstanding student at Vanderbilt and later at Berkeley, Yale, and as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford.
www.bookpage.com /9702bp/nonfiction/robertpennwarren.html   (758 words)

  
 Robert Penn Warren Library
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) lived in Kentucky for a relatively short part of his life, but Kentucky remained with him throughout his eighty-four years.
Robert Penn Warren, distinguished scholar-writer, was born in Guthrie, Kentucky, on April 24, 1905.
Papers related to Warren's life are arranged chronologically; criticism by title of Warren's work; and interview notes and transcripts alphabetically by interviewee, including writers such as Saul Bellow, Cleanth Brooks, William Styron, Eudora Welty, and John Crowe Ransom.
www.wku.edu /Library/dlsc/rpwlib.htm   (635 words)

  
 Southern Author Robert Penn Warren in Southern Literary Review
Robert Penn Warren was in Guthrie, Kentucky in 1905 and remained a resident of the South until his late thirties.
While attending Vanderbilt, Warren’s roommate, Allen Tate, introduced him to a group of young writers, men brought together by their interest in writing poetry and a nostalgia for the culture of the South.
Robert Penn Warren died in 1989 in Vermont.
www.southernlitreview.com /authors/robert_penn_warren.htm   (583 words)

  
 The Academy of American Poets - Poetry Landmark: The Robert Penn Warren Birthplace in Guthrie, KY
While attending Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, Robert Penn Warren joined a group of Southern poets called the Fugitives, which included John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate, who strove to preserve formal poetic techniques and rural agrarian social values.
Warren received critical acclaim for his writing, eventually becoming the first Poet Laureate of the United States and winning three Pulitzer prizes, two for poetry and one for fiction, for his novel All the King's Men.
The small brick railroad cottage in Guthrie, Kentucky, where Warren was born in 1905 was saved from dilapidation by a group of local residents named the Committee for the Preservation of the Robert Penn Warren Birthplace in Todd County.
www.poets.org /viewmedia.php/prmMID/5752   (382 words)

  
 KYLIT - A site devoted to Kentucky Writers
Warren was born on April 24, 1905, in Guthrie, Kentucky.
Warren had a way of perceiving history which brought out the universal in the particular and focused on the intersections between individual and collective experience.
Warren's characters lived in a world replete with evil as well as good and had to come to grips with their own sinful natures.
www.english.eku.edu /SERVICES/KYLIT/WARREN.HTM   (1431 words)

  
 Robert Penn Warren: An Appreciation
Warren graduated summa cum laude from Vanderbilt in 1925 and went to study at the University of California on a teaching fellowship, where he received a master's degree in literature in 1927.
Warren shifted frequently and effortlessly between poetry and nonfiction during the 1920s and 1930s because, while he viewed a poem as a work of art requiring many revisions, he felt that criticism was more a diversion from his creative endeavors.
Warren should also be remembered as a great educator who found the college classroom as a haven for intellectual pursuits and who challenged his students with lectures, essays, and textbooks imbued with original and timeless meditations on man's struggle with himself and his world.
www.sunoasis.com /vasallowarren.html   (2786 words)

  
 Robert Penn Warren
Warren's best-known novel is ALL THE KING'S MEN (1946), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1947.
Robert Penn Warren was born in Guthrie, Kentucky.
Warren's early career as a poet attracted little public attention, and for many years his fame as a writer rested chiefly upon his philosophical novels.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /warren.htm   (1632 words)

  
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 Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Warren is a very accessible poet, with a strong sense of narrative and a nonintimidating diction, both of which students generally enjoy.
Warren's great concern with the historical vision and the meanings found in memory and the past are distinctly southern.
Warren's depiction of the natural world-- the hawk, for instance--is quite striking, and students like to discuss this aspect of his work.
www.georgetown.edu /bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/warren.html   (391 words)

  
 Warren, Robert Penn - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Warren, Robert Penn 1905-89, American novelist, poet, and critic, b.
Warren's most famous novel is All the King's Men (1946; Pulitzer), which concerns the rise to power of a political demagogue resembling Huey Long.
Original sin, redemption, and language in Robert Penn Warren's poetry.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-warren-r.html   (526 words)

  
 The My Hero Project - Robert Penn Warren
Warren was both a friend and teacher to one of America's most prolific television writer producers, David Milch.
Robert Penn Warren, one of twentieth century America's most distinguished men of letters, was born in Guthrie, Kentucky, in 1905, and died in Stratton, Vermont, in 1989.
Robert Penn Warren was the first Poet Laureate of the United States.
www.myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=rpwarren   (867 words)

  
 [minstrels] Grackles, Goodbye -- Robert Penn Warren
His parents were Robert Franklin Warren, a proprietor and banker, and Anna Ruth Penn Warren, a schoolteacher.
Warren was a poet, critic, novelist, and teacher.
Warren's first published novel was Night Rider, Houghton, (1939) and was about the tobacco war (1905-1908) between independent tobacco growers in Kentucky and large tobacco companies.
www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/968.html   (1187 words)

  
 The Academy of American Poets - Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren was born in Guthrie, Todd County, Kentucky, on April 24, 1905.
Warren's first poems were published in The Fugitive, a magazine which the group published from 1922 to 1925.
Warren served as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets from 1972 until 1988, and was selected as a MacArthur Fellow in 1981.
www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/17   (461 words)

  
 Warren and Criticism
Writing independently, Warren never came up with anything like "the heresy of paraphrase," "the core of meaning and the tissue of irrelevance," "the intentional fallacy," or "tension in poetry"; he contrived none of the doctrines that, glibly recited, seems to characterize the New Critical movement.
For, as Warren observes, even naive readers of fction, identifying with heroes and grieving at their deaths, play the double game—although such readers are probably unaware that identification and grief are separate activities.
Warren has exhibited it to be, first, reading which is undertaken for the sake of interpretation and judgment.
www-english.tamu.edu /pers/fac/myers/warren.html   (3928 words)

  
 Robert Penn Warren: A Biography Insight on the News - Find Articles
Warren managed to cross the Mason-Dixon line, however, and his peers considered him an American, not a Southern writer, some proclaiming him the equal of Walt Whitman and Robert Frost.
Warren was born in Guthrie, Ky., in 1905.
Warren had heard his mentor read Hardy in class, but the effect of le dejeuner sur l'herbe was intoxicating.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n15_v13/ai_19340528   (937 words)

  
 CNN - Robert Penn Warren - April 24, 1998
(CNN) -- Robert Penn Warren, the multi-Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and one of America's foremost poets, was born on April 24, 1905, in Guthrie, Kentucky.
Warren established himself as a force in American letters early in his writing career, winning acclaim for his poetry in the southern "Fugitive" magazine, published from 1922-1925.
Warren also succeeded in creating one of the classics of American fiction when he wrote "All the King's Men," a story of political power and corruption.
www.cnn.com /books/news/9804/24/warren/index.html   (164 words)

  
 Robert Penn Warren Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), American man of letters, was dedicated to art as a way of exploring the meaning of contemporary existence.
Writer and poet Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) was born in Guthrie, Kentucky on April 24, 1905.
Warren's fiction, usually historically based, considers the implications of man's initiation into awareness of the potential evil in himself and the world.
www.bookrags.com /biography/robert-penn-warren   (690 words)

  
 Robert Penn Warren - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic, and was one of the founders of The New Criticism.
Warren was born in Guthrie, Kentucky, graduated from Clarksville High School (TN), Vanderbilt University in 1925 and the University of California, Berkeley in 1926.
Warren won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his best known work, the novel All the King's Men, whose main character, Willie Stark, resembles the radical Louisiana populist Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), whom Warren was able to observe closely while teaching at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge from 1933-42.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Penn_Warren   (695 words)

  
 Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Robert Penn Warren was born on April 24, 1905, in Guthrie, Kentucky.
Warren's roommate at Vanderbilt was Allen Tate--one of the many young writers in Nashville that aspired to writing poetry and discussing the nostalgia of the agrarian South.
Warren pursued his literary career in the graduate programs at the University of California and Yale University and in 1928 he entered Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
oneweb.utc.edu /~tnwriter/authors/warren.r.p.html   (625 words)

  
 Today in History: September 15
During his long and distinguished literary carer, Warren was twice associated with the Library of Congress.
Warren studied at the University of California, Yale, and at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar.
The former president's son, Robert A. Taft, was elected to the Senate.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/sep15.html   (976 words)

  
 LitWeb.net
Warren has called it "dramatic"; there is sense of action, having happened, or being about to happen, and new expectation, significances about to be revealed.
Warren's marriage to Emma Brescia (1930), whose neurasthenic personality forced her to spend most of her time bedridden, ended in divorce in 1950.
Warren received many honours, including National Medal for Literature in 1970, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980, and the Prize Fellowship of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in 1981.
www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/warren_robert.html   (1389 words)

  
 Robert Penn Warren (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
'''Robert Penn Warren''' (April 24, 1905 - September 15, 1989) was an American poet and writer.
Penn Warren won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his best known work, the novel All the King's Men.
In 1981, Warren was selected as a MacArthur Fellow and later was named as the first U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry on February 26, 1986.
robert-penn-warren.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888   (358 words)

  
 Conversations with Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) excelled in three written genres-fiction, poetry, and literary criticism-and is one of the few writers to be awarded Pulitzer Prizes for both his poetry and his fiction.
Warren's critical acumen is present in every piece here, as he talks forthrightly about literature's place in American culture, the role of history in his novels and poetry, and the contemporary events that raged during his lifetime.
Conversations with Robert Penn Warren is a rewarding look at a man whose life and literary career spanned most of the twentieth century.
www.upress.state.ms.us /catalog/spring2005/conv_robert_penn_warren.html   (326 words)

  
 Amazon.com: All the King's Men: Books: Robert Penn Warren,Noel Polk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In one passage, Warren relates that Davis missed the steamboat that was to carry him on the first leg of his trip to Montgomery to assume the Presidency of the new Confederacy.
Warren has turned out a masterpiece that is not only fun to read but is so enjoyable that the reader will hate to come to the end.
Warren is most known for his poetry, and this long, rambling book is filled with poetic moments, grand gestures of philosophical phrases, and the bombastic arrogance of someone who things he knows much more about life than you, and as it turns out, probably does.
www.amazon.com /All-Kings-Robert-Penn-Warren/dp/0156012952   (2347 words)

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