Warren, Robert Penn (Vol. 8) - Warren, Robert Penn 1905–
Warren, Robert Penn 1905–
American novelist, poet, short story writer, playwright, and essayist, Warren is an influential figure in twentieth-century American letters. One of the original members of the "Fugitive Group" of poets, the founding editor of The Southern Review, and one of the earliest innovators in the New Criticism, Warren has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for both fiction and poetry and the National Book Award for poetry. A central theme in his work is the moral imperative to exercise personal responsibility and the difficulty of this stance in a world of random justice. Although Warren is best known for his novels, he is generally better respected for his poetry. (See also CLC, Vols. 1, 4, 6, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 13-16, rev. ed.)
It was a pity that the reviewers regarded All the King's Men as primarily another life of Huey Long to be compared with the other lives of Long and not with the other...
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