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A Robert Penn Warren reader.

Author/creator Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989
Format Book and Print
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Random House, ©1987.
Descriptionxiv, 477 pages ; 25 cm
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorWarren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 inscriber.
Other author/creatorJessup, Eunice Clark, former owner.
Other author/creatorLarsson, Maria Jessup, former owner.
Other author/creatorWright, Stuart, 1948- former owner.
Other author/creatorPoets Laureate Collection (Library of Congress)
Uniform titleWorks. Selections. 1987
Contents Fiction. Prime leaf -- How Willie Proudfit came home -- From At heaven's gate -- Cass Mastern's wedding ring -- Blackberry winter -- Portrait of La Grand' Bosse -- From A place to come to -- Nonfiction. Pure and impure poetry -- Love and separateness in Eudora Welty -- William Faulkner -- Introduction to the Modern Library edition of All the king's men -- Segregation : the inner conflict in the South -- The legacy of the Civil War : meditations on the Centennial -- Poetry. From Thirty-six poems -- From Eleven poems on the same theme -- From Selected poems: 1923-1941 -- From Promises : poems 1954-1956 -- From You, emperors, and others : poems 1957-1960 -- From Tale of time : poems 1960-1966 -- From Incarnations : poems 1966-1968 -- Audubon : a vision -- From Or else-- poem/poems 1968-1974 -- From Can I see Arcturus from where I stand? : poems 1975 -- From Now and then : poems 1976-1978 -- From Being here : poetry 1977-1980 -- From Rumor verified : poems 1979-1980 -- From Brother to dragon : a new version -- From Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce -- From Altitudes and extensions : 1980-1984.
Local noteJoyner Wright Coll. copy 30372017045300 inscribed on title page "To Stuart [Wright], my warm friendship, Red [Robert Penn Warren]. May 23, 1987." Includes dust jacket. Laid in are a note that the book was Warren's copy; a letter from Zaro Starr to Wright (October 23, 1986); an article on Warren as poet laureate sent to Wright from Starr (October 7, 1986); a letter from Warren to Wright (June 30, 1988); an invitation for a Library of Congress luncheon honoring Warren (October 6, 1986); and a note from Richard Lewis to Wright (June 11, 1990).
Local noteJoyner Wright Coll. copy 30372016385152 inscribed on t.p. "April 12, 1987, To Eunice [Clark Jessup], ... Red [i.e., Robert Penn Warren." Includes dust jacket. Laid in: Maria (Jessup) Larsson [Robert Penn Warren's niece] Letter to Stuart Wright enclosing books purchased by Wright (ca. 1986) ALS. Stuart Wright Book Collection #5.43. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Robert Penn Warren Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections.
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copy 30372017045300 purchased from Stuart Wright, 2012
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copy 30372016385152 purchased from Stuart Wright, 2010
Issued in other formOnline version: Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989. Selections. 1987. Robert Penn Warren reader. 1st ed. New York : Random House, ©1987
LCCN 86017850
ISBN0394558960
ISBN9780394558967

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