Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism.
Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries Timeline of Poets Laureate at the Library of Congress Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Guide to the Robert Penn Warren Photograph Collection at the University of Kentucky. Guide to the Robert Penn Warren papers, 1916-1967 at the University of Kentucky. Stuart Wright Collection: Robert Penn Warren Papers (#1169-014), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J.
Novel Understanding Fiction (1943), with Cleanth Brooks Selected Poems, 1923–1943 (1944) Melville the poet 1946.
Novel Who Speaks for the Negro? (1965) Selected Poems: New and Old 1923–1966 (1966) Incarnations: Poems 1966–1968 (1968) Audubon: A Vision (1969).
Lewis Or Else: Poem/Poems 1968–1974 (1974) Democracy and Poetry (1975) Selected Poems: 1923–1975 (1976) A Place to Come to (1977).
Book-length poem New and Selected Poems: 1923–1985 (1985) Portrait of a Father (1988) New and Selected Essays (1989) The Collected Poems (1998), edited by John Burt All the King's Men: Three Stage Versions (2000), edited by James A.
Warren's mother's family had roots in Virginia, having given their name to the community of Penn's Store in Patrick County, Virginia, and she was a descendant of Revolutionary War soldier Colonel Abram Penn. Robert Penn Warren graduated from Clarksville High School in Clarksville, Tennessee; Vanderbilt University (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in 1925; and the University of California, Berkeley (M.A.) in 1926.
Warren's mother's family had roots in Virginia, having given their name to the community of Penn's Store in Patrick County, Virginia, and she was a descendant of Revolutionary War soldier Colonel Abram Penn. Robert Penn Warren graduated from Clarksville High School in Clarksville, Tennessee; Vanderbilt University (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in 1925; and the University of California, Berkeley (M.A.) in 1926.
Warren pursued further graduate study at Yale University from 1927 to 1928 and obtained his B.Litt.
Warren pursued further graduate study at Yale University from 1927 to 1928 and obtained his B.Litt.
as a Rhodes Scholar from New College, Oxford, in England in 1930.
That same year he began his teaching career at Southwestern College (now Rhodes College) in Memphis, Tennessee. ==Career== While still an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University, Warren became associated with the group of poets there known as the Fugitives, and somewhat later, during the early 1930s, Warren and some of the same writers formed a group known as the Southern Agrarians.
Main character Willie Stark resembles Huey Pierce Long (1893–1935), the radical populist governor of Louisiana whom Warren was able to observe closely while teaching at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge from 1933 to 1942.
He founded the literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935.
Main character Willie Stark resembles Huey Pierce Long (1893–1935), the radical populist governor of Louisiana whom Warren was able to observe closely while teaching at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge from 1933 to 1942.
The opera Willie Stark by Carlisle Floyd, to his own libretto based on the novel, was first performed in 1981. Warren served as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1944–1945 (later termed Poet Laureate), and won two Pulitzer Prizes in poetry, in 1958 for Promises: Poems 1954–1956 and in 1979 for Now and Then.
Novel Understanding Fiction (1943), with Cleanth Brooks Selected Poems, 1923–1943 (1944) Melville the poet 1946.
He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for All the King's Men (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979.
Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky. Warren's best-known work is All the King's Men, a novel that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947.
Introduced at the post office in his native Guthrie, it depicts the author as he appeared in a 1948 photograph, with a background scene of a political rally designed to evoke the setting of All the King's Men.
The 1949 film by the same name was highly successful, starring Broderick Crawford and winning the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1949.
His second marriage was in 1952 to Eleanor Clark, with whom he had two children, Rosanna Phelps Warren (born 1953) and Gabriel Penn Warren (born 1955).
His second marriage was in 1952 to Eleanor Clark, with whom he had two children, Rosanna Phelps Warren (born 1953) and Gabriel Penn Warren (born 1955).
The opera Willie Stark by Carlisle Floyd, to his own libretto based on the novel, was first performed in 1981. Warren served as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1944–1945 (later termed Poet Laureate), and won two Pulitzer Prizes in poetry, in 1958 for Promises: Poems 1954–1956 and in 1979 for Now and Then.
Novel Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South (1956) Promises: Poems: 1954–1956 (1957) Selected Essays (1958) Remember the Alamo! (1958).
His second marriage was in 1952 to Eleanor Clark, with whom he had two children, Rosanna Phelps Warren (born 1953) and Gabriel Penn Warren (born 1955).
However, Warren recanted these views in an article on the civil rights movement, "Divided South Searches Its Soul", which appeared in the July 9, 1956 issue of Life magazine.
For children All the King's Men: A Play (1960) You, Emperors, and Others: Poems 1957–1960 (1960) The Legacy of the Civil War (1961) | valign="top" | Wilderness: A Tale of the Civil War (1961).
He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for All the King's Men (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979.
The opera Willie Stark by Carlisle Floyd, to his own libretto based on the novel, was first performed in 1981. Warren served as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1944–1945 (later termed Poet Laureate), and won two Pulitzer Prizes in poetry, in 1958 for Promises: Poems 1954–1956 and in 1979 for Now and Then.
Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Robert Penn Warren collection, 1964-1989 [Penn Warren Papers].
In 1965, he published Who Speaks for the Negro?, a collection of interviews with black civil rights leaders including Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., thus further distinguishing his political leanings from the more conservative philosophies associated with fellow Agrarians such as Tate, Cleanth Brooks, and particularly Davidson.
Novel Who Speaks for the Negro? (1965) Selected Poems: New and Old 1923–1966 (1966) Incarnations: Poems 1966–1968 (1968) Audubon: A Vision (1969).
Lewis Or Else: Poem/Poems 1968–1974 (1974) Democracy and Poetry (1975) Selected Poems: 1923–1975 (1976) A Place to Come to (1977).
Promises also won the annual National Book Award for Poetry.(With essay by Kiki Petrosino from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog, and other material on Warren.) In 1974, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected him for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S.
Novel Now and Then: Poems 1976–1978 (1978) Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices - A New Version (1979) Being Here: Poetry 1977–1980 (1980) Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back (1980) Rumor Verified: Poems 1979–1980 (1981) Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce (1983).
In 1977, Warren was awarded the St.
Novel Now and Then: Poems 1976–1978 (1978) Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices - A New Version (1979) Being Here: Poetry 1977–1980 (1980) Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back (1980) Rumor Verified: Poems 1979–1980 (1981) Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce (1983).
He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for All the King's Men (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979.
The opera Willie Stark by Carlisle Floyd, to his own libretto based on the novel, was first performed in 1981. Warren served as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1944–1945 (later termed Poet Laureate), and won two Pulitzer Prizes in poetry, in 1958 for Promises: Poems 1954–1956 and in 1979 for Now and Then.
Novel Now and Then: Poems 1976–1978 (1978) Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices - A New Version (1979) Being Here: Poetry 1977–1980 (1980) Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back (1980) Rumor Verified: Poems 1979–1980 (1981) Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce (1983).
In 1980, Warren was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter.
The opera Willie Stark by Carlisle Floyd, to his own libretto based on the novel, was first performed in 1981. Warren served as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1944–1945 (later termed Poet Laureate), and won two Pulitzer Prizes in poetry, in 1958 for Promises: Poems 1954–1956 and in 1979 for Now and Then.
In 1981, Warren was selected as a MacArthur Fellow and later was named as the first U.S.
The center promotes "interdisciplinary research and study in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences." The high school that Robert Penn Warren attended, Clarksville High School (Tennessee), was renovated into an apartment complex in 1982.
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry on February 26, 1986.
In 1987, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. Warren was co-author, with Cleanth Brooks, of Understanding Poetry, an influential literature textbook.
It began its programs in January 1988, and in 1989 received a $480,000 Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism.
It began its programs in January 1988, and in 1989 received a $480,000 Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
He is buried at Stratton, Vermont, and, at his request, a memorial marker is situated in the Warren family gravesite in Guthrie, Kentucky. ==Legacy== In April 2005, the United States Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp to mark the 100th anniversary of Warren's birth.
:Louisiana State University Press, 2009 Warren, Rosanna "Places - A Memoir of Robert Penn Warren" The Southern Review Volume 41-2 Spring 2005 ==External links== Official website The Robert Penn Warren Oral History Archive (digital exhibit, Louie B.
There was another film adaptation in 2006 featuring Sean Penn as Willie Stark.
2 (Spring 2006) features 6 articles related to Robert Penn Warren, all available online (as of November 2014). List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients -- Literature Bibliography Millichap, Joseph R..
:Louisiana State University Press, 2009 Warren, Rosanna "Places - A Memoir of Robert Penn Warren" The Southern Review Volume 41-2 Spring 2005 ==External links== Official website The Robert Penn Warren Oral History Archive (digital exhibit, Louie B.
Norton & Company, 2010) |} ==References== Further reading The South Carolina Review, vol.
2 (Spring 2006) features 6 articles related to Robert Penn Warren, all available online (as of November 2014). List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients -- Literature Bibliography Millichap, Joseph R..
All text is taken from Wikipedia. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License .
Page generated on 2021-08-05