| Other author/creator | Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 inscriber. |
| Other author/creator | Jessup, Eunice Clark, former owner. |
| Other author/creator | Larsson, Maria Jessup, former owner. |
| Other author/creator | Wright, Stuart, 1948- former owner. |
| Other author/creator | Poets Laureate Collection (Library of Congress) |
| Uniform title | Works. 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 note | Joyner 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 note | Joyner 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 form | Online version: Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989. Selections. 1987. Robert Penn Warren reader. 1st ed. New York : Random House, ©1987 |
| LCCN | 86017850 |
| ISBN | 0394558960 |
| ISBN | 9780394558967 |
