Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: The Apprentice Years 1924--1934: Southern Literary Studies (Hardcover)
Autor Robert Penn Warren Editat de William Bedford Clark, James A. Perkinsen Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 feb 2000
Warren's earliest correspondence limns a friendship in earnest with Allen Tate, a crushing heartbreak, and an attempted suicide. Eventually the author regroups, graduates with honors, and entertains a bad-boy phase at Berkeley and Yale. As he studies at Oxford, writes his first book, and decides not to complete his doctorate, Warren exhibits a deepening maturity and devotion to his literary craft, expressing ever more complex ideas about poetry and fiction. His nagging financial difficulties, growing commitment to the Agrarian movement, controversial essay for I'll Take My Stand, marriage to Cinina Brescia, and professional uncertainty as one of the first to combine writing with college teaching lead him into the 1930s, when the bright prospect of tenure and an opportunity to remake the Southwest Review arises.
Warren's letters, all but one previously unpublished, fascinate in their revelations, such as the author's surprisingly tangled relationship with his parents, his delicate health, and the gossip about major literary figures, including Tate, JohnCrowe Ransom, Donald Davidson, and Laura Riding. But beyond rich biographical detail, they offer a veritable self-portrait of the fledgling artist: "When a person writes a letter it is nearly as much one to himself as to the person who takes it from the postbox". The self-consc
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ISBN-10: 0807125369
Pagini: 274
Dimensiuni: 161 x 238 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.04 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Lsu Press
Seria Southern Literary Studies (Hardcover)