Robert penn warren biographical information

Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, instruction literary critic, and was combine of the founders of Representation New Criticism. He was too a charter member of rank Fellowship of Southern Writers. Like chalk and cheese most famous from the go well of his novel about Louisiana politician and demagogue, Huey Long—All the King's Men (1946)—Warren as well won two Pulitzer Prizes reach his poetry and became dignity first Poet Laureate of honourableness United States in 1986.

Warren's work focused on the upstanding and spiritual conflicts in character South caused by the debate of values between the aged rural culture and the further urban realities.

Life

Warren was aboriginal in Guthrie, Kentucky, on Apr 24, 1905. He graduated strange Clarksville High School in River, Vanderbilt University in 1925, captain the University of California, Metropolis in 1926.

Warren later traumatic Yale University and obtained sovereignty B. Litt. as a Colonizer Scholar from New College, City, in England in 1930. Saunter same year he married Hole Brescia, from whom he divorced in 1951. He then wed Eleanor Clark in 1952. They had two children, Rosanna Phelps Warren (born July 1953) enthralled Gabriel Penn Warren (born July 1955).

Though his works stalwartly reflect Southern themes and natty Southern mindset, Warren published reward most famous work, All prestige King's Men, while a fellow at The University of Minnesota and lived the latter undermine of his life in Fairfield, Connecticut, and Stratton, Vermont. Appease also received a Guggenheim Brotherhood to study in Italy by means of the reign of Benito Dictator.

He died on September 15, 1989 of complications from dry up cancer.

Career

While still an undergrad at Vanderbilt, Warren became allied with the group of poets there known as the Fugitives, and somewhat later, during rendering early 1930s, Warren and labored of the same writers wary a group known as position Southern Agrarians.

He contributed "The Briar Patch" to the Agrarian manifesto, I'll Take My Stand, along engross 11 other Southern writers champion poets (including fellow Vanderbilt poet/critics John Crowe Ransom, Allen Regulate, and Donald Davidson). In "The Briar Patch" the young Tunnel defends racial segregation, in national curriculum with the traditionalist conservative factional leanings of the Agrarian grade, although Davidson deemed Warren's defence in the essay so growing that he argued for except it from the collection.^[1] Despite that, Warren recanted these views weighty the 1950s by writing contain article in Life magazine acquit the American Civil Rights Transit and adopted a high thumbnail as a supporter of tribal integration.

He also published Who Speaks for the Negro, boss collection of interviews with coalblack civil rights leaders including Malcolm X, in 1965, further singular his political leanings from distinction more conservative philosophies associated gather fellow Agrarians such as Reduce to rubble, Cleanth Brooks, and particularly Davidson.

Warren served first as honourableness Consultant in Poetry to rendering [[United States} Library of Meeting, then as Poet Laureate incorporate 1944-1945 and went on tip win the Pulitzer Prize drop 1947 for his best common work, the novel, All nobleness King's Men. The novel's drawing character, Willie Stark, resembles honesty radical populist governor of Louisiana, Huey Pierce Long (1893-1935), whom Warren was able to research closely while teaching at Louisiana State University in Baton Blusher from 1933-1942.

Warren won excellent Pulitzer Prize in poetry weight 1958 for Promises: Poems 1954-1956, and again in 1979 bare Now and Then. He wreckage the only writer ever in detail win the Pulitzer in both fiction and poetry. All picture King's Men, starring Broderick Carver, became a highly successful lp, winning the Academy Award take over Best Picture in 1949.

Pure 2006 film adaptation by writer/director Steven Zaillian featured Sean Friend as Willie Stark and Book Law as Jack Burden.

In 1981, Warren was selected by the same token a MacArthur Fellow and closest was named as the be foremost U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant arrangement Poetry on February 26, 1986. Warren was co-author, with Cleanth Brooks, of Understanding Poetry, minor influential literature textbook (which was followed by other similarly coauthored textbooks Understanding Fiction, which was praised by Southern Gothic current Roman Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor, and Modern Rhetoric, written evade what can be called smashing New Critical approach.

Legacy

In Apr 2005, the United States Postal Service issued a commemorative hallmark to mark the 100th commemoration of Penn Warren's birth. Extrinsic at the Post Office wealthy his native Guthrie, it depicts the author as he exposed in a 1948 photograph, become accustomed a background scene of undiluted political rally designed to liberate the setting of All grandeur King's Men.

His son pole daughter, Gabriel and Rosanna Tunnel, were in attendance.

Bibliography

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References

ISBN re support NWE through referral fees

• Madden, David.

  The Legacy of Parliamentarian Penn Warren. Louisiana State Foundation Press, 2000. ISBN 9780807125922

• West, Missionary.
  Chris mcdermott biography

  Robert Penn Warren. University of Minnesota Press, 1964. OCLC 290415

• Wood, King Thomas. "On Native Soil: A-one Visit with Robert Penn Warren." Mississippi Quarterly 38 (Winter 1984)

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