New and Selected Essays

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PHOTO: JERRY BAUER BpPfSVp^HBHHBjjj^^H Róbert Penn Warren was born in Guthrie, ^r Kentucky, in 1905. After graduating IB^^^^^H summa cum laude from Vanderbilt UniW t versity (1925), he received a master's W a^H^^^^I degree from the University of California WUrnjé '^BPm (1927), and did graduate work at Yale kí %LsJt? ü University (1927-28) and at Oxford as a Sm. V RhodesScholar(B. Litt., 1930). Mr. Warren has published many books, i RHHf including ten novels, sixteen volumes of poetry, and a volume of short stories; alsó a play, two collections of critical essays, a biography, three historical essays, a critical book on Dreiser and a study of Melville, and two studies of race relations in America. This body of work was published in a period of well over half a century-a period during which Mr. Warren alsó had an active career as a professor of English. All the King's Men (1946) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Shelley Memóriái Award recognized Mr. Warren's early poems.... Tovább

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PHOTO: JERRY BAUER BpPfSVp^HBHHBjjj^^H Róbert Penn Warren was born in Guthrie, ^r Kentucky, in 1905. After graduating IB^^^^^H summa cum laude from Vanderbilt UniW t versity (1925), he received a master's W a^H^^^^I degree from the University of California WUrnjé '^BPm (1927), and did graduate work at Yale kí %LsJt? ü University (1927-28) and at Oxford as a Sm. V RhodesScholar(B. Litt., 1930). Mr. Warren has published many books, i RHHf including ten novels, sixteen volumes of poetry, and a volume of short stories; alsó a play, two collections of critical essays, a biography, three historical essays, a critical book on Dreiser and a study of Melville, and two studies of race relations in America. This body of work was published in a period of well over half a century-a period during which Mr. Warren alsó had an active career as a professor of English. All the King's Men (1946) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Shelley Memóriái Award recognized Mr. Warren's early poems. Promises (1957) won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Prize for the Poetry Society of America, and the National Book Award. In 1944-45 Mr. Warren was the second occupant of the Chair of Poetry at the Library of Congress. In 1952 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society; in 1959 to the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and in 1975 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1967 he received the Bollingen Prize in Poetry for Selected Poems: New and Old 1923-1966, and in 1970 the National Medál for Literature, and the Van Wyck Brooks Award for the booklength poem Audubon: A Vision. In 1974 he was chosen by the National Endowment for the Humanities to deliver the third Annual Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities. In 1975 he received the Emerson-Thoreau Award of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1976 he received the Copernicus Award from the Academy of American Poets, in recognition of his career but with special notice of Or Else-Poem/Poems 1968-1974. In 1977 he received the Harriet Monroe Prize for Poetry and the Wilma and Roswell Messing, Jr., Award. In 1979, for Now and Then, a book of new poems, he received his third Pulitzer Prize. In 1980 he received the Award of the Connecticut Arts Council, the Presidential Medál of Freedom, the Common Wealth Award for Literature, and the Hubbell Memóriái Award (The Modern Language Association). In 1981 he was a recipient of a Prize Fellowship of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. In 1986 he was designated as this country's first official Poet Laureate. Mr. Warren lives in Connecticut with his wife, Eleanor Clark (author of The Bittér Box, Romé and a Villa, The Oysters of Locmariaquer, Baldur's Gate, Eyes, Etc. A Memoir. and Glória Mundi). They have two children, Rosanna and Gábriel. Vissza