Critical essays on Robert Penn Warren / [compiled by] William Bedford Clark.
| Other author | Clark, William Bedford. |
| Other author | Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 former owner. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, ©1981. |
| Description | viii, 239 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Critical essays on American literature Critical essays on American literature. ^A118490 |
| Contents | Introduction / William Bedford Clark -- Martyr and fanatic (John Brown) / Allan Nevins -- Problems of knowledge (Thirty-six poems) / Morton Dauwen Zabel -- Tragic liberal (Night rider) / Christopher Isherwood -- Luke Lea's empire (At heaven's gate) / Malcolm Cowley -- At heaven's gate / Andrew Lytle -- The inklings of 'original sin' (Selected poems, 1923-43) / John Crowe Ransom -- All the king's men / Henry Rago -- Proustian exploration (The circus in the attic) / Henry Nash Smith -- Virtue plundered in Kentucky (World enough and time) / A.B. Guthrie, Jr. -- On the underside of the stone (Brother to dragons) / Randall Jarrell -- The dragon of guilt (Brother to dragons) / Delmore Schwartz -- Souls lost in a blind lobby (Band of angels) / Carlos Baker -- Melodrama with meaning (The cave). Crusader in a world of chance (Wilderness) /Granville Hicks -- The uncorrupted consciousness (Flood) / Arthur Mizener -- Down the line (Who speaks for the Negro?) / Joseph Epstein -- The enormous spider web of Warren's world (Meet me in the green glen) / John W. Aldridge -- A technician's romance (a place to come to) / Richard Howard -- Now and then : poems 1976-78. Brother to dragons : a new version / Harold Bloom -- An interview in New Haven with Robert Penn Warren / Richard B. Sale -- The mariner and Robert Penn Warren / James H. Justus -- Warren's osmosis / Victor Strandberg -- Toward an analysis of the prose style of Robert Penn Warren / Allen Shepherd -- A meditation on folk-history : the dramatic structure of Robert Penn Warren's The ballad of Billie Potts / William Bedford Clark -- All the king's men and the shadow of William James / Cushing Strout -- The case of the vanishing narratee : an inquiry into All the king's men / Simone Vauthier -- Brother to dragons : the fact of violence vs. the possibility of love. Notes on the revised version of Brother to dragons / Richard G. Law -- Sacramental vision : the poetry of Robert Penn Warren / A.L. Clements. |
| Local note | Autographed on t.p. "Robert Penn Warren." Stuart Wright Book Collection #191.19. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, Robert Penn Warren Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Acquisitions source | Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2012 |
| LCCN | 80028716 |
| ISBN | 0816184240 |
| ISBN | 9780816184248 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | Stuart Wright Collection | PS3545.A748 Z66 1981 | ✔ Available | Request Material |