San Antonio College Library

"Understanding Robert Penn Warren offers a comprehensive introduction to and commentary on the fiction, poetry, and drama of one of the twentieth century's most versatile writers and the first author to be honored as U.S. poet laureate. In this volume James A. Grimshaw, Jr., describes Warren's search for meaning in life and for a connection between self and others. Grimshaw examines the writer's views about the primacy of self-knowledge and explores...

Robert Penn Warren (1905-89), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for both poetry and fiction, the National Book Award, and the first official Poet Laureate of the United States, wrote just one collection of short fiction: his 1947 volume, The Circus in the Attic and Other Stories. The fourteen tales in this volume are of exceptionally high quality, yet have been virtually neglected by critics. His pervasive theme of the individual searching for self in...

In this analysis of Robert Penn Warren's American vision, Ruppersburg finds a fusion of idealism and pragmatism emanating from Warren's view of the country's agricultural existence and his valuation of the past. Warren's concept of the great men in America who enable the envisioning of a nation helps explain his idealism. Ruppersburg avoids a rehash of familiar Warren themes, but looks at the author's racism, the delusions underlying American civilization,...

Synthesizes much of the significant criticism dealing with Warren's works over almost half a century (1930-79), emphasising the novels, particularly the earlier ones. Critics represented are Richard Howard, Allan Nevins, Morton Zabel, Christopher Isherwood, Malcolm Cowley, Joseph Epstein and Richard Sale.

A comprehensive survey of Warren's complete canon (circa 1981). Justus discusses Warren's cycle of themes, his poetry, his nonfiction prose, and the political and moral statements of his novels.