Warren, Robert Penn (Vol. 6) - Warren, Robert Penn 1905–
Warren, Robert Penn 1905–
The youngest of the "Fugitive Group" of Southern American poets, Warren was one of the original New Critics and a founding editor of The Southern Review. He received a Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his novel All the King's Men and another in 1958 for poetry. Distinguished in every genre, Warren is one of America's most important and influential literary figures. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 13-16, rev. ed.)
One theme penetrates all Warren's works—his poetry, his fiction, his criticism: the conflict, for man, between World and Idea. The world is that set of tough, incontrovertible conditions that man encounters in his brute experience of actuality; the Idea is the dream, the moral and spiritual vision of how things ought to be. Warren rebukes the idealist and the rationalist for their wilful ignorance of the contingencies of life, which can be given significance only by an act of imagination....
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