Then & now : the personal past in the poetry of Robert Penn Warren /

Then & now : the personal past in the poetry of Robert Penn Warren / Floyd C. Watkins.

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Taking a new approach to the study of Robert Penn Warren's imposing and still growing poetic canon, Floyd C. Watkins has found in the poems what he describes as a ""poetic autobiography"" unparalleled in American letters. Drawing on interviews with Warren, members of his fam...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Watkins, Floyd C.
Other title:Then and now.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©1982.
Subjects:
Warren, Robert Penn, > 1905-1989 > Poetic works.
Warren family > In literature.
Warren family.
Warren, Robert Penn, > 1905-1989.
Biography in literature.
Self in literature.
Criticism and interpretation.
Intellectual life.
Literature.
Kentucky > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Southern States > In literature.
Kentucky > In literature.
Kentucky.
Southern States.
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Sources & Documentation; 1. Creation & Criticism; 2. The Penns, the Warrens, & the Boy; Cerulean Springs; Guthrie; The Family; The Boy & the Poetry; 3. Guthrie & Cerulean Springs; Early Poems; Some Blacks-Two Early Poems & a Sequel; Years without Poems & the New Beginnings; Boyhood; Some Townspeople; Some Tragedies; Old Memories; 4. Now & Then-Father, Mother, Friend, Self; Frontier; The Late 1800s; Childhood-The Early 1900s; The 1920s & 1930s-The Mother; The 1940s & 1950s-The Father; The 1970s-The Friend.
  • The 1970s & the PastReferences; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

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