Audubon (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Penn Warren
- First Published: 1969
- Type of Work: Poetic sequence
- Genres: Poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Nature, Art or artists, Dreams, Capital punishment, Kings, queens, or royalty, Painting or painters, Pictures, Birds, Wildlife, Naturalists, Princes or princesses
The Poem
Robert Penn Warren once said that he had started Audubon: A Vision, about the American naturalist and painter of native birds John James Audubon, in 1946-1947, when he was reading Audubon’s and other subhistories of early nineteenth century America. He was dissatisfied with it then and threw away what he had written. Twenty years later he suddenly remembered one line of his poem and immediately knew what he must do with it. The line he remembered is the only remnant of the original poem: “Was not the lost dauphin,” which begins the first poem in this...
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