National Review, April 21st, 1997
THE appearance now of solid biographies of Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks testifies to the continuing importance of both men and calls again to mind the importance of what they thought and did. Though both grew up in the South, they were, in their temperaments, different kinds of Southerners. As Joseph Blotner demonstrates in his Robert Penn Warren (Random House, 585 pp., $35), Warren was the more expansive and tumultuous, extending himself into all areas of literature: short story, novel, poetry, criticism, biography, drama. His subjects, centrally, were history, power, and the depth...
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