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Contents Plan of the Series Introduction Acknowledgments Permissions Works by Robert Penn Warren Chronology 1. A Kentucky Beginning: 1905-1933 A Beginning Warren to Andrew Lytle, 8 August 1925 1977 interview with Benjamin DeMott Guthrie Excerpts from Portrait of a Father "Old-Time Childhood in Kentucky," from New and Selected Poems Friday, Will. "The Author and the Ballplayer: An Imprint of Memory in the Writings of Robert Penn Warren." Mississippi Quarterly 44, no. 2 (spring 1991): 159-66. Not Typeset Video typescript, 11 August 1987 Clarksville Warren's growing-up place-Tom Wibking, The Leaf-Chronicle, 21 February 1982 "To a Face in the Crowd" Warren to Donald M. Kington, 6 March 1975 Nashville Excerpt from Egerton, John. Nashville: The Faces of Two Centuries, 1780-1980 (Nashville: Plus Media, Inc., 1979) Not Typeset Excerpt from Cowan, Louise. The Fugitive Group. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959, p. xxiii Excerpt from In Fugitives' Reunion, edited by Rob Roy Purdy, 219-222. Nashville: Vanderbilt University, 1959. Not Typeset Brooks, Cleanth. "Brooks on Warren." Four Quarters 21, no.4 (May 1972): 19-20 Not Typeset Berkeley Katherine Anne Porter Meets Warren Warren to Davidson, 19 September 1926 Oxford Excerpt from Clark, William Bedford. "Letters from Home: Filial Guilt in Robert Penn Warren." Sewanee Review, 110, no. 3 (summer 2002): 385-405 Excerpt from Review of John Brown: The Making of a Martyr-L. A. Harper, University of California Chronicle (July 1930) Excerpt from Nevins, Allan. "'Martyr and Fanatic.'" The New Republic, 19 March 1930, 134-135 Excerpt from Ruppersburg, Hugh. Robert Penn Warren and the American Imagination. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1990 Return to Nashville Warren and I'll Take My Stand-from Louis D. Rubin, The Wary Fugitives Excerpt from Stewart, John L. The Burden of Time. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1965. Not Typeset Excerpt from Ruoff, James E. "Robert Penn Warren's Pursuit of Justice: From Briar Patch to Cosmos." Research Studies of the State College of Washington, 27 (March 1959): 19-38. Not Typeset Excerpt from Egerton, John. Nashville: The Faces of Two Centuries, 1780-1980 (Nashville: Plus Media, Inc., 1979) Not Typeset 27, 479 Words 2. From LSU to Minnesota: 1934-1950 Baton Rouge Excerpt from Charles East, "Memories of Baton Rouge," Charles East Collection, Hill Memorial Library, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, n.d., typescript Warren to Katherine Anne Porter, in Selected Letters of RPW, vol. 1, The Apprentice Years, 1924-1934, ed. William Bedford Clark (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2000), 259; letter from Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas Warren to Donald Davidson, in Clark, vol. 1, The "Southern Review" Years, 1935-1942 (LSU Press, 2001), 19; letter from Vanderbilt University Brooks, Cleanth, and Robert Penn Warren. "The Origin of the Southern Review." Southern Review 22, no. 1 (winter 1986): 214-17 Not Typeset Thomas W. Cutrer, Parnassus on the Mississippi (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1984), 39-49 Cleanth Brooks, "Forty Years of 'Understanding Poetry,' in Confronting Crisis: Teachers in America, ed. Ernestine P. Sewell and Billi M. Rogers (Arlington: University of Texas at Arlington Press, 1979), 167-68; quoted in Grimshaw, Cleanth Brooks and RPW: A Literary Correspondence (Univ. of Missouri Press, 1998), 3 Robert B. Heilman, "Baton Rouge and LSU Forty Years After," Sewanee Review 88 (winter 1980): 126-43 Not Typeset Charles East, "Locating the Offices of the Southern Review. 1935-1942." Charles East Collection, Hill Memorial Library, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La. Typescript. Warren's reminiscences in The Southern Review, Original Series, 1935-1942, ed. by Lewis P. Simpson (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1983), 16-18 Not Typeset John Bradbury in The Fugitives: A Critical Account (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1958), 233 Not Typeset Strandberg, Victor H. A Colder Fire: The Poetry of Robert Penn Warren. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1965. 1-5 Warren to Tate, letter regarding changes in Night Rider, Jan 1939, in Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, vol. 2, The Southern Review Years, 1935-1942 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001), 178 Alvan S. Ryan, "RPW's Night Rider: The Nihilism of the Isolated Temperament," in RPW: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. Richard Gray (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1980), 32-39. From Modern Fiction Studies 7, no. 4 (winter 1961-62): 338-46. Randolph Paul Runyon, "Father, Son, and Taciturn Text," in "To Love So Well the World": A Festschrift in Honor of RPW, ed. Dennis L. Weeks (New York: Peter Lang, 1992), 113-21 Joseph Warren Beach, "Eleven Poems on the Same Theme," RPW Papers, YCAL 51, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Conn., ca.1942-43. Typescript. Joseph Warren Beach, letter, 5 February 1942, RPW Papers, YCAL 51, Beinecke Library Minneapolis Warren to John Palmer, in Selected Letters of RPW, vol. 2, The Apprentice Years, 1924-1934, ed. William Bedford Clark (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2000), 395; letter from John Ellis Palmer's personal file Warren to Frank Owsley, in Clark, vol. 2, 398-99; letter. at Vanderbilt John Chamberlain, review of At Heaven's Gate, New York Times, 19 Aug 43, p.17 Malcolm Cowley, "Luke Lea's Empire," review of At Heavens Gate, New Republic (23 Aug 43): 258 Allen Shepherd, "The Poles of Fiction: Warren's AHG," in RPW, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1986), 111-20.-(c)TSLL (1971); first published in Texas Studies in Literature and Language 12 (winter 1971): 709-18 Not Typeset Willard Thorp, review of SP43, NYTBR, 7 May 44:4 John Crow Ransom, Saturday Review, 20 May 44:10-11 William Bedford Clark on dramatic structure in Ballad of Billie Potts, in Critical Essays, 151-59; rpt fm American Literature, 49 (1978): 635-45 Victor H. Strandberg, Colder Fire: The Poetry of Robert Penn Warren, SP23, pp. 6-8 Frederick A. Pottle to Warren, letter, 19 June 1945, YCAL Cleanth Brooks to Warren, letter, 5 June 1945, in Grimshaw, Cleanth Brooks and RPW: A Literary Correspondence (Univ. of Missouri Press, 1998), p. 93 Not Typeset Warren to Brooks, letter, 9 June 1945, in Grimshaw, p. 95 John Bradbury, The Fugitives: A Critical Account, 246-52 Not Typeset James H. Justus, "Warren as Mentor: Pure and Impure Wisdom." in The Legacy of Robert Penn Warren, edited by David Madden, Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2000), pp. 2-11 Warren on "Blackberry Winter," in Joseph R. Millichap, RPW: A Study of the Short Fiction (New York: Twayne, 1992), 90-95 Brooks to Warren, letter, 13 July 1946, in Grimshaw, p. 110 Need Setting Copy Warren, "Introduction to All the King's Men," from the Modern Library edition (New York: Random House, 1953) Not Typeset Robert Gorham Davis, review of All the King's Men, New York Times Book Review (18 Aug 46):3, 24 Not Typeset Warren to Don Davidson, letter, 9 October 1946 Buckman, Robert, "A Long Mystery: Clouds Around Assassination in 1935 Seem to Be Clearing." Dallas Morning News, 22 September 1991, 43A, 46A Not Typeset Fergusson, Francis, "Three Novels," Perspectives USA, no. 6 (winter 1954), 30-44; on All the Kings Men, 30-35 Not Typeset Wilcox, Earl, "Right On! All the King's Men in the Classroom," Four Quarters 21, no. 4 (May 1972): 69-78 Not Typeset Granville Hicks to Warren, 9 February 1947 Warren to Hicks, 18 February 1947 John Burt, "Idealism and Rage in Proud Flesh," in RPW: An Annual of RPW Studies, vol. I, edited by William Bedford Clark and Grimshaw (Bowling Green: Western Kentucky University, 2001), pp. 45-61 Production Notes for All the Kings Men, Produced by Robert Rossen, Columbia Pictures, October 1949. YCAL #51, Warren Papers, Mimeographed copy Not Typeset Bosley Crowther, Review of All the King's Men, The New York Times Film Review (9 November 1949): 37 Warren to Brooks, 12 September 1949, in Grimshaw, p. 172 Need Setting Copy Carlos Baker, "Through the Iron Gates," review of World Enough and Time, Virginia Quarterly Review 26 (Autumn 1950): 603-605 Not Typeset Richard G. Law, "Warren's World Enough and Time: 'Et in Arcadia Ego.'" In "Time's Glory": Original Essays on Robert Penn Warren, edited by James A. Grimshaw, Jr. (Conway, Ark.: University of Central Arkansas Press, 1986), pp. 13-41 Foreword to Leonard Casper, RPW: The Dark and Bloody Ground (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1960), vii-xvi Not Typeset Introduction to L. Hugh Moore, Jr., Robert Penn Warren and History (The Hague: Mouton, 1970), pp. 11-24 Not Typeset 58, 545 words 3. The Yale Years: 1951-1973 The Yale Years Lewis, R. W. B. "Robert Penn Warren: Geography as Fate." In Legacy, 14-22. [insert] Warren to Arthur Mizener, 8 November 1966. Need Setting Copy Miller, Victoria Thorpe. "Shared Lives and Separate Studies: The Literary Marriage of Eleanor Clark and Robert Penn Warren." In rWp: An Annual of Robert Penn Warren Studies, vol. III, edited by William Bedford Clark and James A. Grimshaw, Jr. Bowling Green: Western Kentucky University, 2003. Need Setting Copy New Haven Nakadate, Neil. "Robert Penn Warren and the Confessional Novel." Genre 2 (1969): 326-29 Not Typeset Fairfield "The Way It Was Written." New York Times Book Review, 25 August 1953, 6, 25. [insert] Merrill, Boynton, Jr. Jefferson's Nephews: A Frontier Tragedy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976. 326-28. Not Typeset Deutsch, Babette. "Robert Penn Warren's Savage Poem: Old Murder, Modern Overtones." New York Herald Tribune Book Review, 23 Aug 53, 3 [insert] Jarrell, Randall. "On the Underside of the Stone." New York Times Book Review, 23 August 1953, 6. [insert] Warren to Cheney, 22 January 1957 [insert] Schutte, William M. "The Dramatice Versions of the Willie Stark Story." "All the King's Men": A Symposium, chaired by John A. Hart, 75-90. Carnegie Series in English, No. 3. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institue of Technology, 1957. Not Typeset Frankle, Aaron. "Working in the Theater with Robert Penn Warren." In rWp: An Annual of Robert Penn Warren Studies. Vol. 2, edited by William Bedford Clark and James A. Grimshaw, Jr., 1-16. Bowling Green: WKU, 2002 Need Setting Copy Atkinson, Brooks, "Theatre: Stage Politics." New York Times, 17 October 1959, 27. Not Typeset Portrait of a Father. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988. Need Setting Copy "A Vision: Circa 1880" [insert] "A Lesson Read in American Books." In Toward Liberal Education, 3d ed., edited by Louis G. Locke, William M. Gibson, and George Arms, 410-13. New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1957; rpt. from New York Times Book Review, 11 December 1955, 1, 33. Not Typeset Mizener, Arthur. "A Nature Divided Against Itself." New York Times Book Review, 21 Aug 55, 1 and 18. Need Setting Copy fm. Grimshaw, Understanding Robert Penn Warren. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2001. 59-61 Need Setting Copy Ellison, Ralph, and Eugene Walter. "The Art of Fiction XVIII: Robert Penn Warren." Paris Review, 4 (spring-summer 1957):112-40; in Longley, 18 [insert] Ethridge, M., Jr. "Turmoil in the South." Saturday Review, 1 September 1956, 14. Not Typeset Wright, James. "The Stiff Smile of Mr. Warren." KR 20 (autumn 58): 645-48, 650-52, 654-55. Not Typeset Kazin, Alfred. "The Seriousness of RPW." Partisan Review 26 (spring 59): 312, 314-16. Not Typeset Hynes, Sam. "A Tale of Men Trapped in Their Own Darkness." Commonweal, 4 September 1959: 476-77. Not Typeset "An Interview with Flannery O'Connor and Robert Penn Warren." Vagabond 6 (February 1960): 9-17. Not Typeset Strandberg, Victor. "Whatever Happened to 'You'?- A Poetic Odyssey." In rWp: An Annual of RPW Studies. Vol. 1. Edited by Clark and Grimshaw, 143-61. Bowling Green: WKU, 2001. Need Setting Copy Grimshaw, Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren: A Literary Correspondence, 330-31 Need Setting Copy Adams, Phoebe. Atlantic Monthly, Dec 61: 126 Not Typeset Weaver, Richard M. "An Altered Stand." National Review, 17 June 1961: 389-90. Not Typeset Rubin, Louis D., Jr. "'Theories of Human Nature': Kazin or Warren?" Sewanee Review 69 (sum 61): 500-506. Not Typeset R. W. B. Lewis "Afterword." In Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren: A Literary Correspondence, edited by James A. Grimshaw, Jr., 417-24 [insert] RPW to Cheney, 19 May 1961 Need Setting Copy Crews, Frederick C. "A Search for Identity in Fiddlersburg." New York Times Book Review, 26 Apr 64: 6. Not Typeset RWB Lewis, "Flood." NYTBR, 31 May 64: 18 Not Typeset Longley on F, SoR (aut 65): 968-80-in collected essays, 169-71. [insert] Steven D. Ealy. "'An Exciting Spiral': RPW on Race and Community." In rWp: An Annual of RPW Studies, edited by Clark and Grimshaw, 101-122. Vol. 2. Bowling Green: WKU, 2002 Need Setting Copy Strandberg on criticism in PV, 33-45 [insert] Brooks re "By Way of Solution in ltr, 26 Dec 65 in ltrs. 263-64 [insert] Warren to Cheney, 14 January 1966 Need Setting Copy WSN?, a talk with Ellison-Dialogue 2, no. 4 (1969) Not Typeset Robert W. Hamblin, "RPW at the 1965 Southern Literary Festival: A Personal Recollection." Southern Literary Journal (1990?) Not Typeset rev of WSN?, Woodward, NRep, 22 May 65: 21-23 Not Typeset rev of WSN?, Epstein, Joseph, Commentary, Oct 65: 101-05 Not Typeset Perkins on RPW and James Farmer, WSN? in rWp I Need Setting Copy Bedient on Warren's poetry from the 1960s on in 'In the Heart's Last Kingdom'-copyright 1984 [insert] William Kennedy, rev. SPNO, The National Observer, 6 February 1967 Not Typeset rev of SPNO, Davison, AtMo, Nov 66: 137 Not Typeset rev. of I, Plumly, SoR (aut 70): 1201-08 Not Typeset rev of A, Vendler, NYTBR, 11 Jan 70: 5 Not Typeset Burt, American Idealism, chapt on A, 93-98 and 111 [insert] rev MMGG, Aldridge, John W., SatR, 9 Oct 71: 31-32, 35-37 Not Typeset William Parrill, rev. of HTD, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Sept 1971 Not Typeset SP75, A. L. Clements, SoAtlBulletin 43, no. 4 (1978): 47-65-also in Nakadate and in Clark Not Typeset Monroe Spears on RPW as critic, SR (1986) Not Typeset Vann Woodward on Warren at Yale, 23-31 in Legacy [insert] 94,476 4. A Vermont Ending: 1974-1989 Anatole Broyard, New York Times, 23 June 1975 Need Setting Copy rev of DP, Bedient, NYTBR, 3 Aug 75: 17-18 Not Typeset rev of DP, Henry Nash Smith, TLS, 20 Feb 76: 199 Not Typeset "John Crowe Ransom (1988-1974)." Southern Review 11.no. 2 (spring 1975):243-44. Not Typeset U.S. News & World Report, 7 July 1975, 48-49 Not Typeset DeMott "Talk with RPW", NYTBR, 9 Jan 77:1 Not Typeset RPW on uses of the past essay-NSE, but copyrighted by the University of Alabama Press in 1977 A Time to Hear and Answer: Essays for the Bicentennial Season, University, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1977, pp. 3-35 [insert] Clark, William Bedford. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1991. 9-14. [insert] rev of PTCT, Howard in Sat Rev, 19 mar 77, 30, 34 Not Typeset rev. of PTCT: Epstein, Seymour. "RPW's Latest Celebration of the Years." Chicago Tribune, 6 March 1977, sec. 7, p. 1. Not Typeset rev. of PTCT: Julian Symons, "In the Southern Style," TLS, 29 April 1977, 506. Not Typeset Letter to Stanford, 26 November 1977, Special Collections, LSU. [insert] Walker, Marshall. Robert Penn Warren: A Vision Earned. Edinburgh: Paul Harris Publishing, 1979. Need Setting Copy Millichap on Dante influence in Kentucky Philological Rev (1993): 34-39 [insert] Magaw Midwest Qtr (88), on W's new philosophy in PTCT Not Typeset Bloom in Robert Penn Warren (1986), on W's view of God, p. 204 [insert] Strandberg in Colder Fire, p. 81- [insert] Watkins, Floyd C. Then & Now: The Personal Past in the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1982. Need Setting Copy Ferriss, Lucy. Sleeping with the Boss: Female Subjectivity and Narrative Pattern in Robert Penn Warren. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. (14-16, 138-45). [insert] West Wardsboro "A Conversation with Robert Penn Warren." Bill Moyers'Journal. Educational Broadcasting Corporation, 4 April 1976 Not Typeset rev of OEP, Christopher Ricks, NYTBR, 23 Feb 75: 6-7 Not Typeset rev. NT-Paul Piazza, "Intimations of Immortality." The Chronicle Review, 30 October 1978, R-11. Not Typeset rev NT, Stitt, GaR (spg 79): 214-17 Not Typeset Simpson, Lewis P. "The Concept of the Historical Self in Brother to Dragons." In Robert Penn Warren's Brother to Dragons: A Discussion, edited by James A. Grimshaw, Jr., 244-49. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1983. [insert] William Meredith letter to Warren, 2 July 1979. Not Typeset Swan, Annalyn. "America's Dean of Letters." Newsweek, 25 August 1980, 66-68. Not Typeset Clark, William Bedford, ed. The Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren. Vol. 1. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000. (122, n. 5) Need Setting Copy Tucker, Carll. "Creators on Creating: Robert Penn Warren." Saturday Review, July 1981, 38-41. Not Typeset Watkins, 169-70. Not Typeset rev. of BH. James Dickey, "RPW's Courage." Saturday Review, August 1980, 56-57 Not Typeset rev of RV, Pettingell, New Leader, 14 Dec 81, 16-17 Not Typeset rev. of RV Ehrenpreis, Irvin. "Continuity and Change." Atlantic Monthly, December Not Typeset Parini on NT, BH, RV in TLS, 29 Jan 82, 113 Not Typeset Cowley, "RPW, aet. 75." Georgia Review 35, no. 1 (spring 1981): 7-12. Not Typeset Colman McCarthy, "RPW at 75." [Washington Post] 2 May 1980, A18;1981, 88-91. [NB: May not use. Cannot locate correct source of publication.] Not Typeset RPW, "In the Time of 'All the King's Men.'" NYTBR, 31 May 1981, 9, 39-42. Not Typeset Sue Kreisman Siegel, "Two Writers Lament a 'Loss of Community.'" NYT, 6 November 1981, 23. Not Typeset Cullick, Jonathan S. Making History. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2000. 155-59. [insert] Sister Quinn, SoR, 1985-rev. of NSP/autobiography Not Typeset rev of NSP, Kakutani, NYT, 24 Apr 85: C19 Not Typeset rev of NSP, Bloom, NYRB, 30 May 85: 40-42 Not Typeset USNWR, 1986-1st poet laureate Not Typeset Time 1986-1st poet laureate Not Typeset Elizabeth Kastor, "Warren Fears Americans Losing Sight of Poetry's Importance." Palm Beach Post, 11 October 1986, 4F. Not Typeset Szczesiul, Anthony. Racial Politics and Robert Penn Warren's Poetry. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. Not Typeset Richards, David. "All the King's' Stages." Washington Post, 18 October 1987, F1. Not Typeset Prologue to All the King/s Men. Adapted and directed by Adrian Hall. Dallas Theater Center, Dallas, Texas, 2-21 January 1990. Not Typeset Cleanth Brooks. "Afterword." Southern Quarterly 31, no. 4 (summer 1993): 106-112. Not Typeset Patrick H. Samway. "The Nobel Prize Deferred Again." America, 14 November 1987, 359, 365. Not Typeset RWB Lewis on W's precursors in Literary Reflections, 259 Not Typeset Kastor, Elizabeth. "Robert Penn Warren: A Voyage to the Heart." Washington Post, 16 September 1989, C1. Not Typeset Polk, Noel. "The Text of the 'Restored' Edition of All the King's Men." In rWp: An Annual of Robert Penn Warren Studies, vol. 2, edited by William Bedford Clark and James A. Grimshaw, Jr., 17-64. Bowling Green: Western Kentucky University, 2002. [insert] 87,692 words Conclusion Warren, "Poetry Is a Kind of Unconscious Autobiography" Not Typeset Southern Review, 1990, tributes by Brooks, Stanford, Simpson, and Olney. Not Typeset Peter Davison. "Deep in the Blackness of Woods: A Farewell to Robert Penn Warren." New England Monthly, March 1990, 37-39 Not Typeset Louis D. Rubin, "R. P. W. 1905-1989." Sewanee Review (1990): 236-43. Not Typeset Hamblin, Robert W. "Robert Penn Warren at the 1965 Southern Literary Festival: A Personal Recollection." Southern Literary Journal, 22 (spring 1990): 53-62. Need Setting Copy Hynes ltr. 25 March 1988 to RPW Need Setting Copy James Shannon, "Overdue Tribute to a Teacher Who Made a Lifelong Difference," Minneapolis Star and Tribune, 7 September 1986, 25A. Not Typeset Norton R. Girault, "Recollections of Robert Penn Warren as Teacher in the 1930s." Texas Writers Newsletter no. 31 (April 1983): 3-6. [insert] Dickey, James. "Warren's Poetry: A Reading and Commentary." In A Southern Renascence Man: Views of Robert Penn Warren, edited by Walter B. Edgar, 81-93. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982. [insert] Davison, Peter. "Swimming 1935: Six Sentences for Robert Penn Warren." Poetry (August 1982): 269-79. [insert] 16,123
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
English teachers -- United States -- Biography.
Critics -- United States -- Biography.