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1 online resource (xi, 292 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Critical Reckoning; 1 The Themes of Robert Penn Warren; Passage; The Undiscovered Self; Mysticism; In Context: Warren's Criticism; 2 Poems of Passage; 3 The Undiscovered Self; 4 Mysticism; 5 Postscript: An Appreciation; Some Notes on Verse Texture; The Question of Place -- Notes; Index of Warren's Works; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
Though it has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize, the poetry of Robert Penn Warren still is not widely or well understood. In this study, Victor H. Strandberg redresses this imbalance by providing a comprehensive survey of the poetic canon of this gifted, complex, and much-neglected poet. Warren writes in the tradition of Western poets concerned with the painful experience of a forced, one-way passage from innocence into ""the world's stew"" of time and loss. This passage, Strandberg explains, results for Warren in bifurcation of the self into warring segme |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 -- Poetic works
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Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 fast |
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Criticism and interpretation
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Literature
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Southern States -- In literature
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Southern States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0813164486 |
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9780813164489 |
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