Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)
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Sobre El Autor
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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
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Series
Obras de Robert Penn Warren
Six Centuries of Great Poetry: A Stunning Collection of Classic British Poems from Chaucer to Yeats (1955) — Editor — 318 copias
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, Volume 2: The "Southern Review" Years, 1935-1942 (2000) 13 copias
American Literature: The Makers and the Making Book d 1914 to the Present (American Literature (St Martins)) (1974) 8 copias
Robert Penn Warren (3 Book Set) All the King's Men -- World Enough and Time -- Band of Angels. 5 copias
2007 2 copias
Selected poems, 1923-1943 2 copias
Un lugar a donde llegar 2 copias
Coro de angeles 1 copia
“A Christian Education” 1 copia
UN ENDROIT OU ALLER 1 copia
DREPTATEA LUI JEREMIAH BEAUMONT 1 copia
Christmas Gift 1 copia
Evening Hawk [poem] 1 copia
Six poems 1 copia
“Bearded Oaks” 1 copia
“Audubon” 1 copia
“American Portrait: Old Style” 1 copia
“Mortal Limit” 1 copia
El caballero de la noche 1 copia
La caverne 1 copia
Les rendez vous de la clairiere 1 copia
The Theory of Literature 1 copia
Two Poems 1 copia
Det store bedrag 1 copia
Thirty-six poems 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume Two: E. E. Cummings to May Swenson (2000) — Contribuidor — 409 copias
I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (Library of Southern Civilization) (1930) — Contribuidor — 323 copias
The Fugitive Poets: Modern Southern Poetry (Southern Classics Series) (1991) — Contribuidor — 112 copias
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Contribuidor — 37 copias
The Sun Also Rises / A Farewell to Arms / The Old Man and the Sea (1962) — Introducción, algunas ediciones — 32 copias
Rediscoveries: Informal Essays in Which Well-Known Novelists Rediscover Neglected Works of Fiction by One of Their… (1971) — Contribuidor — 27 copias
The Best Short Stories of 1939 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1939) — Contribuidor — 6 copias
32 Współczesne Opowiadania Amerykańskie - Tom I — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Уоррен, Роберт Пенн
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1905-04-24
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1989-09-15
- Lugar de sepultura
- Willis Cemetery, Stratton, Vermont, USA
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Guthrie, Kentucky, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Stratton, Vermont, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Guthrie, Kentucky, USA
Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
Stratton, Vermont, USA
Nashville, Tennessee, USA - Educación
- 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 (mostrar todos 7)
Guthrie School - Ocupaciones
- poet
novelist
short-story writer
playwright
literary critic
editor (mostrar todos 8)
publisher
professor - Relaciones
- Clark, Eleanor (echtg.)
Warren, Rosanna (dochter)
Brooks, Cleanth (vriend)
Lytle, Andrew (vriend)
Taylor, Peter Hillsman (vriend)
Erskine, Albert (vriend) (mostrar todos 10)
Davidson, Donald (leraar)
Jarrell, Randall (leerling)
Mims, Edwin (leraar)
Warren, Noah (kleinzoon) - Organizaciones
- 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) (mostrar todos 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) - Premios y honores
- 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]) (mostrar todos 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 - Biografía breve
- 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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Willie Stark –inspirado en una figura histórica, Huey Long, el célebre y discutido gobernador populista de Louisiana– es un personaje de poderosa y compleja personalidad: orador amado por las multitudes y dictador sin escrúpulos que se mantiene en el poder mediante la corrupción y el chantaje. Robert Penn Warren ha escrito una de las grandes novelas políticas del siglo XX y una original exploración del tema inagotable del conocimiento de uno mismo, donde se entrelazan varios destinos. En el centro, Willie Stark, abogado de origen humilde que llegará a gobernador del estado, que seduce a Anne Stanton, a su hermano Adam y a Jack Burden, los insatisfechos hijos de las familias poderosas del estado. Adam Stanton es el idealista puro y Jack Burden es un desarraigado que pretende ser sólo un espectador inteligente.… (más)
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- ISBNs
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- Favorito
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