Warren, Robert Penn (Vol. 4) - Warren, Robert Penn 1905–

Warren, Robert Penn 1905–

Warren is a celebrated American poet, novelist, short story writer, literary critic, essayist, and editor. Warren was an original member of the influential "Fugitive Group" of poets and is often associated with New Criticism in literature. The moral and intellectual welfare of men in complex contemporary society, an abiding aspect of his agrarian sensibility, has been a prevailing theme in his work. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 13-14.)

[Robert Penn Warren is] a writer of great talent, great sophistication, and great intellect. The most notable characteristic of Warren's work is his serious concern with religious and philosophical ideas. He attempts to write the novel of ideas in which the essentially southern view of man is dramatized through melodramatic actions involving southern characters.

For Warren the problems of man are the twin problems of finding identity and expiating guilt. In finding...

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