To a Little Girl, One Year Old, in a Ruined Fortress (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Penn Warren
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Poems
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Children, Family or family life, Parents and children, Twentieth century, Immortality, Beauty, Flowers, Italy or Italians, Houses, mansions, or manors, Fortresses
Warren broke away from his somewhat morose obsession with evil with his sparkling Promises, winner of his first Pulitzer Prize in poetry. The first five poems of Promises are dedicated to Warren's daughter Rosanna under the general title “To a Little Girl, One Year Old, in a Ruined Fortress.” The setting is the imposing ruin overlooking the Mediterranean Sea where Warren and his second wife, Eleanor, lived in Italy—Cesare Borgia's hunting ground, said Warren, who always knows his history—“those blood-soaked stones.” The first poem of the series, “Sirocca,”...
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