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Robert Penn Warren

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Robert Penn Warren

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American poet, novelist, and literary critic (1905-1989)

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Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989) was an American poet, novelist, writer, and literary critic. Born in Guthrie, Kentucky, he died of natural causes in Stratton. Warren was educated at Vanderbilt University, the University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, and the University of Oxford. He served as a faculty member at Yale, Louisiana State University, the University of Iowa, and Vanderbilt. His notable work includes the novel *All the King's Men*.

Warren received the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel, the National Medal of Arts, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He also served as the United States Poet Laureate. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Phi Beta Kappa Society, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Philosophical Society. Warren was nominated for the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the Nobel Prize in Literature. His archives are held at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

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Person · Open Library

Born
24 Apr 1905
Died
15 Sep 1989
Works
206

Top works

  • William Faulkner
  • Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--The American Experience
  • All the King's Men (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
  • Understanding fiction -- Second Edition
  • The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition

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Film & TV

Writing · Guthrie, Kentucky, USA

Known for

  • Robert Penn Warren: A Vision2018
  • American Masters — Self1986
  • Herman Melville: Damned in Paradise — Interview1985

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1905
Active to
1989

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
956
Total plays
3,022

Tags

spoken wordpoetry

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Quotes

  • So little time we live in Time, And we learn all so painfully, That we may spare this hour's term To practice for Eternity.
  • The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem."
  • For fire flames but in the heart of a colder fire. All voice is but echo caught from a sound-less voice. Height is not deprivation of valley, nor defect of desire. But defines, for the fortunate, that joy in which all joys should rejoice.
  • The poem... is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see — it is, rather, a light by which we may see — and what we see is life.
  • Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, "What do I really feel about this?"
  • The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.

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Key facts

Born
( 1905-04-24 ) April 24, 1905, Guthrie, Kentucky , U.S.
Died
September 15, 1989 (1989-09-15) (aged 84) , Stratton, Vermont , U.S.
Occupation
Writer critic
Education
Vanderbilt University ( BA ) University of California, Berkeley ( MA ) Yale University New College, Oxford ( BLitt )
Genre
Poetry novels
Notable awards
Pulitzer Prize for the Novel (1947) Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1958, 1979) Bollingen Prize (1967) Robert Frost Medal (1985)
Spouse
Emma "Cinina" Brescia (1929–1951) Eleanor Clark (1952 – his death)

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Encyclopedic overview

Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, literary critic and professor at Yale University. He was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for All the King's Men (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry. Yale awarded Warren an honorary Doctor of Letters degree in 1973.

Early years

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