Then and Now: The Personal Past in the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren

by Floyd C. Watkins

Book Overview

Taking a new approach to the study of Robert Penn Warren's imposing and still growing poetic canon, Floyd C. Watkins has found in the poems what he describes as a ""poetic autobiography"" unparalleled in American letters. Drawing on interviews with Warren, members of his family, and contemporaries from his hometown, but keeping the poetry itself constantly at the center of his vision, Watkins shows how the poetry has grown from the experience of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813155231
• ISBN13: 9780813155234
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"