Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: Triumph and Transition, 1943-1952 (Volume Three))
Language: English
Published by LSU Press, 2006
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- Title
- Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: Triumph and Transition, 1943-1952 (Volume Three))
- Author
- Hendricks, Randy and James A. Perkins(Edited by)
- Publisher
- LSU Press
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0807130850
- ISBN 13
- 9780807130858
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
The period 1943-1952 also saw the publication of ""A Poem of Pure Imagination""; World Enough and Time; The Ballad of Billie Potts; At Heaven's Gate; and Selected Poems, 1923-1943. Warren's letters shed new light on those works and on his close relationship with his editors Lambert Davis and Albert Erskine. Included too is correspondence concerning Warren's collaboration with Robert Rossen on the movie production of All the King's Men, which received the Academy Award for best picture in 1949.
The list of friends and colleagues with whom Warren communicated reads like a roll call of major twentieth-century literary figures and clearly shows his ever-widening influence on the world of letters. Spanning a remarkable range in both style and tone, the letters disclose Warren's attitudes toward his work as a teacher and his thoughts on the events of World War II, the Korean War, and the political conflicts in postwar Europe.
Thoroughly annotated and scrupulously researched, Volume Three captures Warren in an extraordinary phase in his life and career, reaching his maturity and making many commitments at once yet pursuing them all with a seemingly boundless energy.
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About the Author
James A. Perkins, professor emeritus of English and public relations at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, is the editor of The Cass Mastern Material: The Core of Robert Penn Warren's ""All the King's Men"" and coeditor of Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men: Three Stage Versions; For the Record: A Robert Drake Reader; Southern Writers at Century's End; and the poetry collection Brother Enemy: Poems of the Korean War.
Randy Hendricks is a professor of English at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of Lonelier than God: Robert Penn Warren and the Southern Exile and a collection of short stories, The Twelfth Year and Other Times. He is also the coeditor of For the Record: A Robert Drake Reader.
William Bedford Clark is a professor of English at Texas A&M University, the author of The American Vision of Robert Penn Warren, and the editor of volumes one and two of the Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren.
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