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Davison, Peter Hubert, 1928-2004 (Sc 3346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2019

Davison, Peter Hubert, 1928-2004 (Sc 3346), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3346. Letter written by poet Peter Davison, undated, to Robert Penn Warren in which he thanks Warren for the day which inspired the enclosed poem, “Swimming, 1935,” which he dedicated to Warren on 10 March 1981. It also includes a touching poem by Davison about the death of his mother Natalie (Weiner) Davison. The printed poem was sent to Warren and his wife Eleanor “with regards, Peter Davison, 11/15/[19]61.” The originals of these documents are located in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.


Blotner, Joseph Leo, 1923-2012 (Mss 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2018

Blotner, Joseph Leo, 1923-2012 (Mss 200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 200. Research material collected by Joseph Leo Blotner for his literary biography of Robert Penn Warren. Includes Warren’s correspondence (photocopies from various repositories), interview transcripts, notes, news clippings, critical essays, and other documentation about Warren. Also includes drafts, galley proofs, and permissions related to the biography.


Clarke, Mary Louise (Washington), 1913-1999 (Mss 634), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jun 2018

Clarke, Mary Louise (Washington), 1913-1999 (Mss 634), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 634. Research, correspondence and photographs relating to the scholarly study of Kentucky author Jesse Stuart by WKU English and folklore professor Mary (Washington) Clarke. Includes correspondence with Stuart, editors and other scholars in connection with her book Jesse Stuart’s Kentucky and other publications. Also includes research and correspondence relating to Clarke’s book Kentucky Quilts and Their Makers.


Boone, Joy (Field) Bale, 1912-2002 (Mss 588), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2016

Boone, Joy (Field) Bale, 1912-2002 (Mss 588), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 588. Papers of poet, editor and activist Joy Bale Boone, Elkton, Kentucky, relating primarily to her service as chair of the Committee for the Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies at Western Kentucky University. Includes correspondence, Committee records, collected data on Robert Penn Warren, and photographs. Also includes audio and video interviews of Boone and colleagues.


Watersheds In Life, Molly Morgan Apr 2016

Watersheds In Life, Molly Morgan

Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest

No abstract provided.


Watershed, Matthew Doyle Apr 2016

Watershed, Matthew Doyle

Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest

No abstract provided.


The Systems Of Life, Madeline Stephenson Apr 2016

The Systems Of Life, Madeline Stephenson

Robert Penn Warren Essay Contest

No abstract provided.


Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (Sc 2988), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2016

Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (Sc 2988), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2988. Letter, 20 March 1952, of Robert Penn Warren, New Haven, Connecticut, to Mrs. Carl P. Rollins. He refers to his “wandering loquacity about the sadistic Lewises” (an apparent reference to his poem Brother to Dragons) being included in certain minutes, but observes that the entry will be “much shorter” than the poem itself.


Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (Sc 2977), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2016

Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (Sc 2977), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 2977. Newspaper and magazine clippings, programs and correspondence relating to the 80th anniversary of the Rhodes Scholars program at Oxford University. Robert Penn Warren participated in these festivities as a program alumnus. Includes a brief correspondence between Warren and fellow Rhodes alumnus Don Price.


“That Paradox Of Unjoyful Joyousness” Or Pure And Impure History: Retrospection And The Past In Robert Penn Warren’S A Place To Come To, Noah Simon Jampol Jan 2016

“That Paradox Of Unjoyful Joyousness” Or Pure And Impure History: Retrospection And The Past In Robert Penn Warren’S A Place To Come To, Noah Simon Jampol

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


When Is An Agrarian Not An Agrarian? A Reading Of Robert Penn Warren’S “The Briar Patch”, Clare Byrne Jan 2016

When Is An Agrarian Not An Agrarian? A Reading Of Robert Penn Warren’S “The Briar Patch”, Clare Byrne

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Editor’S Foreword: The Need For “Deep Engagement”: Robert Penn Warren, Malcolm X, And Ta-Nehisi Coates, Mark D. Miller Jan 2016

Editor’S Foreword: The Need For “Deep Engagement”: Robert Penn Warren, Malcolm X, And Ta-Nehisi Coates, Mark D. Miller

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Fridy, Wilford Eugene, B. 1934 (Mss 384), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2014

Fridy, Wilford Eugene, B. 1934 (Mss 384), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 384. Correspondence, class materials, published and unpublished papers, and research material collected by Dr. Wilford E. Fridy in his study of Robert Penn Warren and his writings. Includes an untitled and unpublished novel by Robert Penn Warren, correspondence between Fridy and Warren, and photos of Warren and Guthrie, Kentucky, Warren’s hometown.


Penn, Anna Ruth (Sc 1013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2013

Penn, Anna Ruth (Sc 1013), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and full-text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1013. Receipt signed by school teacher (Anna) Ruth Penn, Gracy, Kentucky, and given to M.S. Hopson, a member of the School Board of Trustees, for payment. She requested payment of $4.50 for three months’ tuition. Penn was the mother of noted author, Robert Penn Warren. Also associated data.


Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (Sc 883), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Feb 2013

Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (Sc 883), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 883. Letters, 1978-1984 (17), written by Robert Penn Warren in response to Kentucky poet Charles Semones’ letters, discussing mainly the poetry. Also letter, 1993, giving data about the Warren letters.


Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (Sc 463), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Jul 2012

Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 (Sc 463), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid and scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 463. Photocopy of letter written by Robert Penn Warren, from France, to Addie Hochstrasser, Bowling Green, Kentucky, fulfilling her request for an inscription of his to place in a copy of his biography of Theodore Dreiser.


Warren, Robert Penn Oral History Collection, 1977-1982 (Mss 383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Apr 2012

Warren, Robert Penn Oral History Collection, 1977-1982 (Mss 383), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 383. Transcripts, notes, and cassette tapes for interviews conducted by Dr. Wilford Fridy with individuals who knew or knew about John Wesley Venable, Jr., the person on whom Robert Penn Warren based the character Bolton Lovehart in his novella "Circus in the Attic." Interviews mention other people and places that Warren knew in Todd County, Kentucky. Also includes tapes of Robert Penn Warren giving a speech, reading some of his work, and an interview with Warren.


Rpw Birthplace: Where It All Began, Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2012

Rpw Birthplace: Where It All Began, Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Confessions Of A Footnoter, Paula Newman Miner, James A. Perkins Jan 2012

Confessions Of A Footnoter, Paula Newman Miner, James A. Perkins

Robert Penn Warren Studies

In his “confessions,” the Footnoter, one of the three editors of the Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, shares trade secrets, spins tales, and recounts anecdotes of success and failure in his attempts to bring understanding to metonymy, synecdoche, allusion, and suggestion as well as to identify individuals mentioned in the letters of Robert Penn Warren, particularly his attempt to discover the identity of the very skillful and amusing writer Paula Newman Miner and her attempt to remain an enigma wrapped in fog living quietly on Cape Cod with her husband and her Loenbergers.


A Critical Look At Robert Penn Warren’S New (And Old) Criticism On Satire, Michael Sobiech Jan 2012

A Critical Look At Robert Penn Warren’S New (And Old) Criticism On Satire, Michael Sobiech

Robert Penn Warren Studies

Although a father of New Criticism, Warren did not always restrict his analysis of a text to the text itself. In his work with John Marston’s satires, Warren appears to go against what will become key attributes of New Critical theory. This essay explores Warren’s work with Marston’s satires, in particular examining his historicizing of the text, arguing for a more complicated view of Warren’s New Criticism.


About The Advisory Group To The Center (Volume 9), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2012

About The Advisory Group To The Center (Volume 9), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Contents (Volume 9), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2012

Contents (Volume 9), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Dedication Page (Volume 9), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2012

Dedication Page (Volume 9), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Robert Penn Warren And Photography, Joseph Millichap Jan 2012

Robert Penn Warren And Photography, Joseph Millichap

Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren’s career and canon demonstrate his more than casual interest in photography, much like those of several contemporaries in the Southern Renaissance. Warren’s 1972 essay about photographer Walker Evans recalls how photographs in the 1930s opened the emerging writer’s imagination to the power inherent in any art form to revise commonplace perceptions of social and subjective reality. Evans and many other photographers thus influenced Warren in his use of photographic tropes for an artistic transformation of the visual art of photography into the verbal art of literature. My close readings of recreated photographs in several major works of …


The Windhover And Evening Hawk Shudder In Sync: Gerard Manley Hopkins And Robert Penn Warren, D.A. Carpenter Jan 2012

The Windhover And Evening Hawk Shudder In Sync: Gerard Manley Hopkins And Robert Penn Warren, D.A. Carpenter

Robert Penn Warren Studies

The author traces the philosophical and poetic similarities between Robert Penn Warren and Gerard Manley Hopkins. In doing so, he addresses the meditative process that Warren and Hopkins use in their work in order to demonstrate human connectedness to each other and nature in the form of what could be called a mystic unity. Integral to this meditative process is Hopkins’ idiosyncratic concepts of “inscape” and “instress,” which are defined and explored by the author while demonstrating how Warren’s work is in dialogue with these concepts, particularly in his 1968 collection of poems, Incarnations.


About The Birthplace (Volume 9), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2012

About The Birthplace (Volume 9), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Editor’S Foreword (Volume 9), Mark D. Miller Jan 2012

Editor’S Foreword (Volume 9), Mark D. Miller

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


About The Circle (Volume 9), Robert Penn Warren Studies Jan 2012

About The Circle (Volume 9), Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Title Page (Volume 9), Robert Penn Warren Circle Jan 2012

Title Page (Volume 9), Robert Penn Warren Circle

Robert Penn Warren Studies

No abstract provided.


Robert Penn Warren’S Emblematic Imagination In All The King’S Men, Thomas J. Derrick Jan 2012

Robert Penn Warren’S Emblematic Imagination In All The King’S Men, Thomas J. Derrick

Robert Penn Warren Studies

Robert Penn Warren’s use of a static image with an explanatory motto has not been traced to its roots in Renaissance emblems. Warren’s coy responses to interviewers about the historical basis of the Huey Long story were balanced by admissions of the literary influence of Elizabethan and Italian culture. Realistic and imaginative events provided material for the author’s deep and slowly developed technique of a dynamic relationship between image and idea. Three phases of development are noticed in Warren’s fiction. His preliminary experiment was seen in the 1943 novel, At Heaven’s Gate; his intermediate development came in his 1950 novel, …