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Observations On Robert Penn Warren’S “The Day Dr. Knox Did It”, James A. Perkins

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“The Day Dr. Knox Did It” may be read as Warren’s artistic response to the suicide of Ernest Hemingway. The poem repeats an important motif from Warren’s second, unpublished and untitled novel, written in the 1930’s. It also contains some interesting correspondences—and equally important contrasts—to the work of Ernest Hemingway, especially the short story “Indian Camp.”

“The Deepest And Widest Metaphor For Life” Re-Visions Of Christian Faith In Robert Penn Warren’S Later Poetry, Nicole Camastra

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While it would be foolish to assert that Warren was a committed Christian and unequivocal believer, a kind of tempered faith does exist in some of Warren’s poems from Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978. Manuscript revisions of “Amazing Grace in the Back Country” and “Heart of the Backlog” reveal Warren’s struggle to find faith, not his conviction of living in it. However, “Heart of Autumn,” the final poem in the volume, points to the conscious act of surrendering to the depth of theistic conflict in its preceding counterparts.

Raised In The Briar Patch: Misreading Warren’S Essay On Race, Leverett Butts

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As human beings, we are prone to all sorts of misreadings: of literary works, of others, of ourselves. This scholarly and personal visit to “The Briar Patch” reveals a younger Warren subtly, perhaps even unconsciously, advocating integration in a world that in the 1920’s was not (and some might say still isn’t) ready to accept full equality.

Selected Bibliography: Robert Penn Warren 2005-2007, Robin L. Condon

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A listing of two years’ worth of “The Good.”

Notes On Contributors (Volume 7), Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Where It All Began (Volume 6), Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Editor’S Foreword (Volume 6), Mark D. Miller

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About The Birthplace (Volume 6), Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Title Page (Volume 6), Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Letters From Lewis: Remembering Lewis P. Simpson, James A. Grimshaw Jr.

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About The Advisory Group To The Center (Volume 6), Robert Penn Warren Studies

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About The Circle (Volume 6), Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Vision In Robert Penn Warren's Poetry, Gwen Lecor

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"The Snow Filled Forest": Robert Frost's Influence On Robert Penn Warren, King Adkins

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Notes On Contributors (Volume 6), Robert Penn Warren Studies

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The Warren Family's 2005 Gift Of Audio-Visual Materials To The Robert Penn Warren Collection Of The Kentucky Library At Western Kentucky University, Joseph R. Millichap

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A Self, Out Of The Wild: Wilderness In The Works Of Robert Penn Warren, Alan Miller

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The New Critic Teaches Writing: Brooks And Warren's Modern Rhetoric, Jonathan S. Cullick

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Dedication Page (Volume 6), Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Shadowing Old Red: The Editor As Gumshoe, William Bedford Clark

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Time And Space Connect The World In Robert Penn Warren's All The King's Men, Amy K. Lavender

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About The Center (Volume 6), Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Selected Bibliography, Robin L. Condon

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Contents (Volume 6), Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Robert Penn Warren, Cleanth Brooks, And The Southern Literary Tradition, Joseph Blotner

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The illustrious biographer of Faulkner and Warren provides an overview of the role the Southern tradition in American letters played in the making of Warren and Brooks, both of whom he knew as friends as well as subjects of professional interest.

A Son Remembers, Gabriel Warren

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The Warrens’ son, a sculptor with a keen eye for natural forms, recalls the important role of place in his family’s life and shares a sequence of evocative photos.

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Warren’S Willie Talos: Reflections On The Name, Harold L. Weatherby

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In choosing Willie Talos as the original name for his strongman governor in All the King’s Men,Warrenwas explicitly drawing upon Edmund Spenser, but his allusion to the Faerie Queene remains puzzling. Spenser’s “robotic” character would seem to have more in common with a dehumanized figure in the novel like Sugar Boy, who is often presented in mechanistic imagery.Warren’s ultimate decision to change Willie’s name from Talos to Stark seems a wise one.

Contents (Volume 5), Robert Penn Warren Studies

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Questions Of Swimming, 1935, Peter Davison

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In an eloquent meditative lyric, one of our leading poets pays tribute to a friend and mentor he knew from childhood.

The Robert Penn Warren Collection At Emory University: A Personal Account, Richard Schuchard

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The Special Collections division of the Emory library is home to a vast array of materials of remarkable value to the study of Robert Penn Warren, and this account provides a useful running guide to those extensive holdings.