Biography EssayRobert Penn Warren's reputation as one of the most versatile and talented of America's men of letters has grown steadily since the publication of his first work in 1929. Although he ach...
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Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), American man of letters, was dedicated to art as a way of exploring the meaning of contemporary existence.Writer and poet Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) was born in Gut...
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Warren has spent his entire professional career associated with institutions of higher education. After graduation from Oxford, he joined the faculty, as an assistant professor, at Southwestern Colleg...
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Until recent years, the popularity of Robert Penn Warren's fiction, crowned by the ascendancy of All the King's Men (1946) to the status of a classic, has somewhat obscured his achievement as a poet. ...
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The importance of Robert Penn Warren has made itself felt in almost equal measure in American literary criticism, poetry, and fiction. Expounding a home-grown New Criticism, Warren and Cleanth Brook...
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[This entry was updated by Victor Strandberg (Duke University) from his update in the Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, volume 6, of the entries by him in DLB 48: American Poets, 1880...
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Critical Essay by David B. Olson
The internal level of action—the Jack Burden story with its moral-intellectual probings—which has surrounded the Willie Stark story is not concluded unt...
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Critical Essay by Monroe K. Spears
Robert Penn Warren has done it again: in the face of advancing years, he has produced another collection of poetry that is at least as good as any of its predecesso...
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The story of Jack Burden presented in All the King's Men shows his discovery of self and everything that affects and pushes this discovery. His story is told in two parts, his past and present. He avo...
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In Robert Penn Warren's prize-winning novel, All the King's Men, the narrator Jack begins as a panoptic cynic. He developed this philosophy over years of observing people and interpreting events tha...
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The knowledge which life brings to a person is often a rise to the meaning of life, but in All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren the reader comes to realize that knowledge can become the greatest d...
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Many people in our modern world find themselves looking for others to lay blame on; constantly attempting to avoid responsibility. In the path through life, on the road to understanding, this avoid...
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Teaching All the King's Men
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The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House, by John F. Harris. Random House, 504 pages, $29.95.Presidents move in the polls long after they leave office, and armchair historians can hold endless...
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Not long after "The Sopranos" began airing, James Gandolfini remembers someone banging on the door of his Manhattan apartment late at night."So I opened the door and the guy just turns white," Gand...
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The tree is in the trash, the New Year's hangovers are fading and the leftover Perrier-Jouët is ready for that back shelf in the fridge, but before we begin anew, it's a good time to raise a g...
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I know that they’ve been sleeping. I know they’re not awake. But I hoped in the year-end glut of holiday movies that the Hollywood Santa would be good for goodness’ sake. Instead ...
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Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
Critical Essay by David B. Olson
The Role of Self in All The King's Men
A Calm and Considered LookAt a Vast, Divisive Presidency
