Poetry Criticism | Warren, Robert Penn - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Watkins, Floyd C. “A Dialogue with Robert Penn Warren on Brother to Dragons.” Southern Review 16, no. 1 (Winter 1980): 1-17.

Discussion centering on Warren's background ideas and method of composition for the narrative poem Brother to Dragons.

———and John T. Hiers, eds. Robert Penn Warren Talking: Interviews 1950-1978. New York: Random House, 1980, 304p.

Reprints transcripts of eighteen conversations with Warren conducted by various interviewers.

CRITICISM

Bromwich, David. Review of Selected Poems: 1923-1975. Hudson Review 30, no. 2 (Summer 1977): 279-92.

Maintains that Warren has steadily become a better poet since the publication of Promises in 1956, acknowledging that he continues to produce both impressive and uneven verse.

Chamberlin, J. E. Review of Or Else: Poem/Poems 1968-1974....

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