...Victor Strandberg Then & Now: The Personal Past in the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren . By Watkins Floyd C. . Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1982 . Pp. xii , 184 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 358 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...David Farrell Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Robert Penn Warren: A Conversation on Poetry David Farrell The following is based on interviews conducted at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City and at Warren s Home at Fairfield, Con­ necticut, in 1978. The interviews are part...

...Lewis Leary John Greenleaf Whittier’s Poetry: An Appraisal and a Selection . By Warren Robert Penn . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1971 . Pp. 206 . $8.95 . Paper $2.95 . Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Book Reviews 273 Oh give me clarity...

...Victor Strandberg A Southern Renascence Man: Views of Robert Penn Warren . Edited by Edgar Walter B. . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1984 . Pp. 116 . $14.95 . Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Book Reviews 441 The Sound and the Fury as squarely...

...John L. Stewart Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 THE ACHIEVEMENT OF ROBERT PENN WARREN * JOHN L. STEWART FOR MORE THAN twenty years Robert Penn Warren has been engaged in telling successively more elaborate versions of the same story the story of man s efforts to flee from...

... that material is accessible for close study of hundreds of local W CTU groups, it should be possible to make a careful test of a thesis such as Epstein s. DUKE UNIVERSITY ANNE FIROR SCOTT Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back. By Robert Penn Warren. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1980. Pp. 114...

... to the successful conduct of the war (p. 62). As always, Robert Penn Warren s thoughts about the nation s crudest testing time are profound and enriching. DUKE UNIVERSITY ROBERT F. DURDEN The Achievement of Robert Penn Warren. By James H. Justus. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1981. Pp. xiv, 362...

...Louis J. Budd Penn State Yankee: The Autobiography of Fred Lewis Pattee . State College : The Pennsylvania State College , 1953 . Pp. 384 . $4.75 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 Book Reviews 153 one being, a being greater than ourselves, who felt all and knew all...

...M. L. Rosenthal Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 Robert Penn Warren s Poetry M. L. Rosenthal Rereading Robert Penn Warren s poetry, and often admiring it, I am nevertheless struck by its unevenness, really unusual for a poet of such gifts. That is one obvious characteristic...

...Madison Jones Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 The Novels of Robert Penn Warren Madison Jones The talent of Robert Penn Warren is distinctively many-sided. He has given us memorable fiction, poetry, and criticism; and even in drama, history, and social thought he has done work...

...William C. Havard Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 The Burden of the Literary Mind: Some Meditations on Robert Penn Warren As Historian William C. Ilavard I The October 7, 1962, issue of the New York Times Book Review reported the answers of six prominent critics to the question...

...Roma A. King, Jr. Copyright © 1957 by Duke University Press 1957 TIME AND STRUCTURE IN THE EARLY NOVELS OF ROBERT PENN WARREN Roma A. King, Jr. IN BROTHERS TO DRAGONS Robert Penn Warren turns to poetry to express precisely a number of themes present in all his earlier work with varying...

..., for the re-establishment of Miss Roberts is doing a genuine service, and we welcome him for it. UNIVERSITY OF WEST VIRGINIA RUEL E. FOSTER Robert Penn Warren: The Dark and Bloody Ground. By Leonard Casper. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1960. Pp. xix, 212. $4.75. Mr. Leonard Casper s critical study...

...Oscar Penn Fitzgerald Copyright © 1905 by Duke University Press 1905 John M. Daniel and Some of His Contemporaries By Oscar Penn Fitzgerald, LL. D., Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South The entrance of John M. Daniel into the editorial ranks was like turning an electric eel...

... was is. Robert Penn Warren, Rattlesnake Country I Roy Harvey Pearce argues that the strategy of the American epic is to make a poem which will create rather than celebrate a hero and which will make rather than recall the history that surrounds him. 1 But in doing so, the authors of American long poems often...

... responsibility, the delegates and the speakers sketched a program of action and a vision of the future that was very much a part of black thinking in the South in the early twentieth century. The Young People s Congress was the brainchild of a young black educator, writer, and church worker, Irvine Garland Penn...

... Warren s family and friends from childhood, and other such scraps as must at present suffice for a biography of the poet, Mr. Watkins has produced a well-written and very useful study of that childhood capital. Among its most illuminating features are its account of the poet s family tree ( The Penns...

...Mason Crum Copyright © 1935 by Duke University Press 1935 THE GOOD SAMARITAN OF ST. HELENA ISLAND MASON CRUM THE Good Samaritan in this story is the Penn School for sea-island negroes, nestled in the heart of picturesque St. Helena Island in the Carolina coast country. Leaving the quaint...