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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 boy and man and from his contemplation of his family's and his country's history. He traces through the poems a family chronicle, moving from the
Self in literature. --- Biography in literature. --- Warren family --- Warren, Robert Penn, --- In literature. --- Poetic works. --- Kentucky --- Southern States --- Intellectual life
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One of America's great poets writes of his father, lost through death and discovered again through insistent recollection. A death in the family forces a re-sorting and reshaping of all that we can recall of times and people gone from us as we measure our identities by their remembered images. While prowling in the past, Warren is drawn to likenesses between himself and his father, between himself and others of his family. The poet finds that his father too, in his long silent youth, ventured into the writing of poetry, as have so many, but in time put it away for other things. Gradually this
Authors, American --- Family relationships. --- Warren family. --- Warren, Robert Franklin. --- Warren, Robert Penn, --- Warren, R. F. --- Red, --- Уоррен, Роберт Пенн, --- Family. --- Kentucky --- Social life and customs. --- Family relationships
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