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Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel All the King's Men (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry.
Biography
Early years
Warren was born in Guthrie, Kentucky, which is very near the Tennessee-Kentucky border, to Robert Warren and Anna Penn. Warren's mother's family had roots in Virginia, having given their name to the community of Penn's Store in Patrick County, Virginia, and was a descendant of Revolutionary War soldier Colonel Abram Penn. Robert Penn Warren graduated from Clarksville High School in Clarksville, Tennessee, Vanderbilt University (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in 1925 and the University of California, Berkeley (M.A.) in 1926. Warren pursued further graduate study at Yale University from 1927 to 1928 and obtained his B.Litt. as a Rhodes Scholar from New College, Oxford, in England in 1930. He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study in Italy during the rule of Benito Mussolini. That same year he began his teaching career at Southwestern College (now Rhodes College) in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Famous quotes by Robert Penn Warren:
"More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past"
"For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography."
"The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life."
"A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released."
"The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.""
"I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan."
"Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure."
"This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal."
"I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without."
"Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write"
"Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money."
"The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it."
Robert Penn Warren
ALBUMS
- The Caedmon Poetry Collection released: 2002
- In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry released: 1996
In Their Own Voices: A Century of Recorded Poetry
Released 1996- I Have Had to Learn to Live With My Face
- Dear John, Dear Coltrane
- We were so poor...
- I was stolen by the gypsies...
- Everybody knows the story...
- Lester Leaps In
- For Poets
- A Dance for Militant Diletantes
- Odysseus to Telemachus
- Ode to My Shoes
- Prayer
- Translator's Son
- Wonder
- The Lost Pilot
- One Kiss
- The Tent People of Beverly Hills
- Uh Oh Plutonium
- The Fine Printing on the Label of a Bottle of Non-Alcohol Beer
- The Sweat Lodge
- Logan Heights and the World
- The Colonel
- Wild Gratitude
- For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash
- Tia Sophia
- This Is Number 26
- I Am Offering You This Poem
- Parsley
- Raisin Eyes
- The Children's Undercroft
- The Concrete River
- Tia Chucha
- My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Aloud
Born: 1905-04-24
Died: 1989-09-15
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Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
Evening Hawk BY Robert Penn Warren From plane of light to plane, wings dipping through Geometries and orchids that the sunset builds, Out of the peak's black angularity of shadow, riding The last tumultuous avalanche of Light above pines and the guttural gorge, The hawk comes. His wing Scythes down another day, his motion Is that of the honed steel-edge, we hear The crashless fall of stalks of Time. The head of each stalk is heavy with the gold of our error. Look! Look! he is climbing the last light Who knows neither Time nor error, and under Whose eye, unforgiving, the world, unforgiven, swings Into shadow. Long now, The last thrush is still, the last bat Now cruises in his sharp hieroglyphics. His wisdom Is ancient, too, and immense. The star Is steady, like Plat...
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James Dickey and Robert Penn Warren discuss writing, 1982.
From the documentary "Two Poets, Two Friends."
published: 25 Mar 2013 -
Robert Penn Warren | Kentucky Life | KET.org
Writer Robert Penn Warren earned a place in history for being the only person to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize for both poetry and fiction. More than 70 years after his lauded novel, “All the King’s Men,” was published, he’s still a hero in his hometown of Guthrie, Kentucky. Learn more about KET's programs and educational services at http://www.ket.org/ Subscribe to the KET channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=ketvideos
published: 21 Feb 2020 -
Robert Penn Warren reads from his book "All the Kings Men"
Robert Penn Warren reads from his book "All the Kings Men"
published: 15 Dec 2011 -
WKU University Reports: Kentucky Poets Jesse Stuart & Robert Penn Warren, 1975
Jim Wayne Miller interviews Jesse Stuart and Robert Penn Warren. Digitized from two inch quad video tape through a 2014-2015 internal WKU Libraries grant. Part of WKYU Production Services collection housed at WKU Archives http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_fin_aid/147/ WKU Archives houses film and videotape created by many university departments and programs. Most films were created for educational purposes and others for promotion of specific departments or WKU as a whole. For information on how to request a copy of a film, please see http://www.wku.edu/library/archive/218.php#film
published: 25 Feb 2015 -
From Legacy of Civil War by Robert Penn Warren, read by David Blight
Visit http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.warren to learn more about the Robert Penn Warren Papers at the Beinecke Library. David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.
published: 03 Nov 2020 -
Malcolm X Interview with Robert Penn Warren. 1965
published: 22 Jan 2017 -
True Love by Robert Penn Warren (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
This poem reminds me of this quotation from Citizen Kane. Mr. Bernstein says: "A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl." Is this really what true love means? I'd keep that label for a mutually rewarding long-term relationship. Isn't it more a memorable coming-of-age experience, a cathexis? Robert Penn Warren, portrait by Conrad A. Albrizio,1935 Smithsonian Institution National ...
published: 31 Jul 2014 -
Robert Penn Warren reads Love Recognized
Robert Penn Warren reads his poem Love Recognized.
published: 25 Jul 2010 -
Martin Luther King Jr. Interview by Robert Penn Warren - Preview
Full Program Airs Saturday March 15, 2014 at 7pm & 11pm ET. For More Information: http://bit.ly/1kfLayV
published: 12 Mar 2014
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Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
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Evening Hawk
BY Robert Penn Warren
From plane of light to plane, wings dipping through
Geometries and orchids that the sunset builds,
Out of the peak's blac...
Evening Hawk
BY Robert Penn Warren
From plane of light to plane, wings dipping through
Geometries and orchids that the sunset builds,
Out of the peak's black angularity of shadow, riding
The last tumultuous avalanche of
Light above pines and the guttural gorge,
The hawk comes.
His wing
Scythes down another day, his motion
Is that of the honed steel-edge, we hear
The crashless fall of stalks of Time.
The head of each stalk is heavy with the gold of our error.
Look! Look! he is climbing the last light
Who knows neither Time nor error, and under
Whose eye, unforgiving, the world, unforgiven, swings
Into shadow.
Long now,
The last thrush is still, the last bat
Now cruises in his sharp hieroglyphics. His wisdom
Is ancient, too, and immense. The star
Is steady, like Plato, over the mountain.
If there were no wind we might, we think, hear
The earth grind on its axis, or history
Drip in darkness like a leaking pipe in the cellar.
Robert Penn Warren, (born April 24, 1905, Guthrie, Ky., U.S.—died Sept. 15, 1989, Stratton, Vt.), American novelist, poet, critic, and teacher, best-known for his treatment of moral dilemmas in a South beset by the erosion of its traditional, rural values. He became the first poet laureate of the United States in 1986.
In 1921 Warren entered Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., where he joined a group of poets who called themselves the Fugitives (q.v.). Warren was among several of the Fugitives who joined with other Southerners to publish the anthology of essays I’ll Take My Stand (1930), a plea for the agrarian way of life in the South.
After graduation from Vanderbilt in 1925, he studied at the University of California, Berkeley (M.A., 1927), and at Yale. He then went to the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. From 1930 to 1950 he served on the faculty of several colleges and universities—including Vanderbilt and the University of Minnesota. With Cleanth Brooks and Charles W. Pipkin, he founded and edited The Southern Review (1935–42), possibly the most influential American literary magazine of the time. He taught at Yale University from 1951 to 1973. His Understanding Poetry (1938) and Understanding Fiction (1943), both written with Cleanth Brooks, were enormously influential in spreading the doctrines of the New Criticism (q.v.).
Warren’s first novel, Night Rider (1939), is based on the tobacco war (1905–08) between the independent growers in Kentucky and the large tobacco companies. It anticipates much of his later fiction in the way it treats a historical event with tragic irony, emphasizes violence, and portrays individuals caught in moral quandaries. His best-known novel, All the King’s Men (1946), is based on the career of the Louisiana demagogue Huey Long and tells the story of an idealistic politician whose lust for power corrupts him and those around him. This novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 and, when made into a film, won the Academy Award for best motion picture of 1949. Warren’s other novels include At Heaven’s Gate (1943); World Enough and Time (1950), which centres on a controversial murder trial in Kentucky in the 19th century; Band of Angels (1956); and The Cave (1959). His long narrative poem, Brother to Dragons (1953), dealing with the brutal murder of a slave by two nephews of Thomas Jefferson, is essentially a versified novel, and his poetry generally exhibits many of the concerns of his fiction. His other volumes of poetry include Promises: Poems, 1954–1956; You, Emperors, and Others (1960); Audubon: A Vision (1969); Now and Then; Poems 1976–1978; Rumor Verified (1981); Chief Joseph (1983); and New and Selected Poems, 1923–1985 (1985). The Circus in the Attic (1948), which included “Blackberry Winter,” considered by some critics to be one of Warren’s supreme achievements, is a volume of short stories, and Selected Essays (1958) is a collection of some of his critical writings.
Besides receiving the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Warren twice won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1958, 1979) and, at the time of his selection as poet laureate in 1986, was the only person ever to win the prize in both categories. In his later years he tended to concentrate on his poetry. - Britannica.com
This documentary was directed and produced by Tom Thurman for Kentucky Educational Television (KET)
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Evening Hawk
BY Robert Penn Warren
From plane of light to plane, wings dipping through
Geometries and orchids that the sunset builds,
Out of the peak's black angularity of shadow, riding
The last tumultuous avalanche of
Light above pines and the guttural gorge,
The hawk comes.
His wing
Scythes down another day, his motion
Is that of the honed steel-edge, we hear
The crashless fall of stalks of Time.
The head of each stalk is heavy with the gold of our error.
Look! Look! he is climbing the last light
Who knows neither Time nor error, and under
Whose eye, unforgiving, the world, unforgiven, swings
Into shadow.
Long now,
The last thrush is still, the last bat
Now cruises in his sharp hieroglyphics. His wisdom
Is ancient, too, and immense. The star
Is steady, like Plato, over the mountain.
If there were no wind we might, we think, hear
The earth grind on its axis, or history
Drip in darkness like a leaking pipe in the cellar.
Robert Penn Warren, (born April 24, 1905, Guthrie, Ky., U.S.—died Sept. 15, 1989, Stratton, Vt.), American novelist, poet, critic, and teacher, best-known for his treatment of moral dilemmas in a South beset by the erosion of its traditional, rural values. He became the first poet laureate of the United States in 1986.
In 1921 Warren entered Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., where he joined a group of poets who called themselves the Fugitives (q.v.). Warren was among several of the Fugitives who joined with other Southerners to publish the anthology of essays I’ll Take My Stand (1930), a plea for the agrarian way of life in the South.
After graduation from Vanderbilt in 1925, he studied at the University of California, Berkeley (M.A., 1927), and at Yale. He then went to the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. From 1930 to 1950 he served on the faculty of several colleges and universities—including Vanderbilt and the University of Minnesota. With Cleanth Brooks and Charles W. Pipkin, he founded and edited The Southern Review (1935–42), possibly the most influential American literary magazine of the time. He taught at Yale University from 1951 to 1973. His Understanding Poetry (1938) and Understanding Fiction (1943), both written with Cleanth Brooks, were enormously influential in spreading the doctrines of the New Criticism (q.v.).
Warren’s first novel, Night Rider (1939), is based on the tobacco war (1905–08) between the independent growers in Kentucky and the large tobacco companies. It anticipates much of his later fiction in the way it treats a historical event with tragic irony, emphasizes violence, and portrays individuals caught in moral quandaries. His best-known novel, All the King’s Men (1946), is based on the career of the Louisiana demagogue Huey Long and tells the story of an idealistic politician whose lust for power corrupts him and those around him. This novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 and, when made into a film, won the Academy Award for best motion picture of 1949. Warren’s other novels include At Heaven’s Gate (1943); World Enough and Time (1950), which centres on a controversial murder trial in Kentucky in the 19th century; Band of Angels (1956); and The Cave (1959). His long narrative poem, Brother to Dragons (1953), dealing with the brutal murder of a slave by two nephews of Thomas Jefferson, is essentially a versified novel, and his poetry generally exhibits many of the concerns of his fiction. His other volumes of poetry include Promises: Poems, 1954–1956; You, Emperors, and Others (1960); Audubon: A Vision (1969); Now and Then; Poems 1976–1978; Rumor Verified (1981); Chief Joseph (1983); and New and Selected Poems, 1923–1985 (1985). The Circus in the Attic (1948), which included “Blackberry Winter,” considered by some critics to be one of Warren’s supreme achievements, is a volume of short stories, and Selected Essays (1958) is a collection of some of his critical writings.
Besides receiving the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Warren twice won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1958, 1979) and, at the time of his selection as poet laureate in 1986, was the only person ever to win the prize in both categories. In his later years he tended to concentrate on his poetry. - Britannica.com
This documentary was directed and produced by Tom Thurman for Kentucky Educational Television (KET)
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James Dickey and Robert Penn Warren discuss writing, 1982.
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From the documentary "Two Poets, Two Friends."
From the documentary "Two Poets, Two Friends."
https://wn.com/James_Dickey_And_Robert_Penn_Warren_Discuss_Writing,_1982.
From the documentary "Two Poets, Two Friends."
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Robert Penn Warren | Kentucky Life | KET.org
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Writer Robert Penn Warren earned a place in history for being the only person to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize for both poetry and fiction. More than 70 years aft...
Writer Robert Penn Warren earned a place in history for being the only person to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize for both poetry and fiction. More than 70 years after his lauded novel, “All the King’s Men,” was published, he’s still a hero in his hometown of Guthrie, Kentucky.
Learn more about KET's programs and educational services at http://www.ket.org/
Subscribe to the KET channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=ketvideos
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Writer Robert Penn Warren earned a place in history for being the only person to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize for both poetry and fiction. More than 70 years after his lauded novel, “All the King’s Men,” was published, he’s still a hero in his hometown of Guthrie, Kentucky.
Learn more about KET's programs and educational services at http://www.ket.org/
Subscribe to the KET channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=ketvideos
- published: 21 Feb 2020
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Robert Penn Warren reads from his book "All the Kings Men"
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Robert Penn Warren reads from his book "All the Kings Men"
Robert Penn Warren reads from his book "All the Kings Men"
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Robert Penn Warren reads from his book "All the Kings Men"
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WKU University Reports: Kentucky Poets Jesse Stuart & Robert Penn Warren, 1975
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Jim Wayne Miller interviews Jesse Stuart and Robert Penn Warren. Digitized from two inch quad video tape through a 2014-2015 internal WKU Libraries grant.
Part...
Jim Wayne Miller interviews Jesse Stuart and Robert Penn Warren. Digitized from two inch quad video tape through a 2014-2015 internal WKU Libraries grant.
Part of WKYU Production Services collection housed at WKU Archives http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_fin_aid/147/
WKU Archives houses film and videotape created by many university departments and programs. Most films were created for educational purposes and others for promotion of specific departments or WKU as a whole. For information on how to request a copy of a film, please see http://www.wku.edu/library/archive/218.php#film
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Jim Wayne Miller interviews Jesse Stuart and Robert Penn Warren. Digitized from two inch quad video tape through a 2014-2015 internal WKU Libraries grant.
Part of WKYU Production Services collection housed at WKU Archives http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_ua_fin_aid/147/
WKU Archives houses film and videotape created by many university departments and programs. Most films were created for educational purposes and others for promotion of specific departments or WKU as a whole. For information on how to request a copy of a film, please see http://www.wku.edu/library/archive/218.php#film
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From Legacy of Civil War by Robert Penn Warren, read by David Blight
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Visit http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.warren to learn more about the Robert Penn Warren Papers at the Beinecke Library.
David W. Blight is Sterling Pro...
Visit http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.warren to learn more about the Robert Penn Warren Papers at the Beinecke Library.
David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.
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Visit http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.warren to learn more about the Robert Penn Warren Papers at the Beinecke Library.
David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.
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Malcolm X Interview with Robert Penn Warren. 1965
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True Love by Robert Penn Warren (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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This poem reminds me of this quotation from Citizen Kane. Mr. Bernstein says:
"A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You ta...
This poem reminds me of this quotation from Citizen Kane. Mr. Bernstein says:
"A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl."
Is this really what true love means? I'd keep that label for a mutually rewarding long-term relationship. Isn't it more a memorable coming-of-age experience, a cathexis?
Robert Penn Warren, portrait by Conrad A. Albrizio,1935 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery.
In silence the heart raves. It utters words
Meaningless, that never had
A meaning. I was ten, skinny, red-headed,
Freckled. In a big black Buick,
Driven by a big grown boy, with a necktie, she sat
In front of the drugstore, sipping something
Through a straw. There is nothing like
Beauty. It stops your heart. It
Thickens your blood. It stops your breath. It
Makes you feel dirty. You need a hot bath.
I leaned against a telephone pole, and watched.
I thought I would die if she saw me.
How could I exist in the same world with that brightness?
Two years later she smiled at me. She
Named my name. I thought I would wake up dead.
Her grown brothers walked with the bent-knee
Swagger of horsemen. They were slick-faced.
Told jokes in the barbershop. Did no work.
Their father was what is called a drunkard.
Whatever he was he stayed on the third floor
Of the big white farmhouse under the maples for twenty-five years.
He never came down. They brought everything up to him.
I did not know what a mortgage was.
His wife was a good, Christian woman, and prayed.
When the daughter got married, the old man came down wearing
An old tail coat, the pleated shirt yellowing.
The sons propped him. I saw the wedding. There were
Engraved invitations, it was so fashionable. I thought
I would cry. I lay in bed that night
And wondered if she would cry when something was done to her.
The mortgage was foreclosed. That last word was whispered.
She never came back. The family
Sort of drifted off. Nobody wears shiny boots like that now.
But I know she is beautiful forever, and lives
In a beautiful house, far away.
She called my name once. I didn’t even know she knew it.
https://wn.com/True_Love_By_Robert_Penn_Warren_(Read_By_Tom_O'Bedlam)
This poem reminds me of this quotation from Citizen Kane. Mr. Bernstein says:
"A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl."
Is this really what true love means? I'd keep that label for a mutually rewarding long-term relationship. Isn't it more a memorable coming-of-age experience, a cathexis?
Robert Penn Warren, portrait by Conrad A. Albrizio,1935 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery.
In silence the heart raves. It utters words
Meaningless, that never had
A meaning. I was ten, skinny, red-headed,
Freckled. In a big black Buick,
Driven by a big grown boy, with a necktie, she sat
In front of the drugstore, sipping something
Through a straw. There is nothing like
Beauty. It stops your heart. It
Thickens your blood. It stops your breath. It
Makes you feel dirty. You need a hot bath.
I leaned against a telephone pole, and watched.
I thought I would die if she saw me.
How could I exist in the same world with that brightness?
Two years later she smiled at me. She
Named my name. I thought I would wake up dead.
Her grown brothers walked with the bent-knee
Swagger of horsemen. They were slick-faced.
Told jokes in the barbershop. Did no work.
Their father was what is called a drunkard.
Whatever he was he stayed on the third floor
Of the big white farmhouse under the maples for twenty-five years.
He never came down. They brought everything up to him.
I did not know what a mortgage was.
His wife was a good, Christian woman, and prayed.
When the daughter got married, the old man came down wearing
An old tail coat, the pleated shirt yellowing.
The sons propped him. I saw the wedding. There were
Engraved invitations, it was so fashionable. I thought
I would cry. I lay in bed that night
And wondered if she would cry when something was done to her.
The mortgage was foreclosed. That last word was whispered.
She never came back. The family
Sort of drifted off. Nobody wears shiny boots like that now.
But I know she is beautiful forever, and lives
In a beautiful house, far away.
She called my name once. I didn’t even know she knew it.
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Robert Penn Warren reads Love Recognized
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Robert Penn Warren reads his poem Love Recognized.
Robert Penn Warren reads his poem Love Recognized.
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Robert Penn Warren reads his poem Love Recognized.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Interview by Robert Penn Warren - Preview
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Full Program Airs Saturday March 15, 2014 at 7pm & 11pm ET. For More Information: http://bit.ly/1kfLayV
Full Program Airs Saturday March 15, 2014 at 7pm & 11pm ET. For More Information: http://bit.ly/1kfLayV
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Full Program Airs Saturday March 15, 2014 at 7pm & 11pm ET. For More Information: http://bit.ly/1kfLayV
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Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
Evening Hawk
BY Robert Penn Warren
From plane of light to plane, wings dipping through
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Evening Hawk
BY Robert Penn Warren
From plane of light to plane, wings dipping through
Geometries and orchids that the sunset builds,
Out of the peak's black angularity of shadow, riding
The last tumultuous avalanche of
Light above pines and the guttural gorge,
The hawk comes.
His wing
Scythes down another day, his motion
Is that of the honed steel-edge, we hear
The crashless fall of stalks of Time.
The head of each stalk is heavy with the gold of our error.
Look! Look! he is climbing the last light
Who knows neither Time nor error, and under
Whose eye, unforgiving, the world, unforgiven, swings
Into shadow.
Long now,
The last thrush is still, the last bat
Now cruises in his sharp hieroglyphics. His wisdom
Is ancient, too, and immense. The star
Is steady, like Plato, over the mountain.
If there were no wind we might, we think, hear
The earth grind on its axis, or history
Drip in darkness like a leaking pipe in the cellar.
Robert Penn Warren, (born April 24, 1905, Guthrie, Ky., U.S.—died Sept. 15, 1989, Stratton, Vt.), American novelist, poet, critic, and teacher, best-known for his treatment of moral dilemmas in a South beset by the erosion of its traditional, rural values. He became the first poet laureate of the United States in 1986.
In 1921 Warren entered Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., where he joined a group of poets who called themselves the Fugitives (q.v.). Warren was among several of the Fugitives who joined with other Southerners to publish the anthology of essays I’ll Take My Stand (1930), a plea for the agrarian way of life in the South.
After graduation from Vanderbilt in 1925, he studied at the University of California, Berkeley (M.A., 1927), and at Yale. He then went to the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar. From 1930 to 1950 he served on the faculty of several colleges and universities—including Vanderbilt and the University of Minnesota. With Cleanth Brooks and Charles W. Pipkin, he founded and edited The Southern Review (1935–42), possibly the most influential American literary magazine of the time. He taught at Yale University from 1951 to 1973. His Understanding Poetry (1938) and Understanding Fiction (1943), both written with Cleanth Brooks, were enormously influential in spreading the doctrines of the New Criticism (q.v.).
Warren’s first novel, Night Rider (1939), is based on the tobacco war (1905–08) between the independent growers in Kentucky and the large tobacco companies. It anticipates much of his later fiction in the way it treats a historical event with tragic irony, emphasizes violence, and portrays individuals caught in moral quandaries. His best-known novel, All the King’s Men (1946), is based on the career of the Louisiana demagogue Huey Long and tells the story of an idealistic politician whose lust for power corrupts him and those around him. This novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 and, when made into a film, won the Academy Award for best motion picture of 1949. Warren’s other novels include At Heaven’s Gate (1943); World Enough and Time (1950), which centres on a controversial murder trial in Kentucky in the 19th century; Band of Angels (1956); and The Cave (1959). His long narrative poem, Brother to Dragons (1953), dealing with the brutal murder of a slave by two nephews of Thomas Jefferson, is essentially a versified novel, and his poetry generally exhibits many of the concerns of his fiction. His other volumes of poetry include Promises: Poems, 1954–1956; You, Emperors, and Others (1960); Audubon: A Vision (1969); Now and Then; Poems 1976–1978; Rumor Verified (1981); Chief Joseph (1983); and New and Selected Poems, 1923–1985 (1985). The Circus in the Attic (1948), which included “Blackberry Winter,” considered by some critics to be one of Warren’s supreme achievements, is a volume of short stories, and Selected Essays (1958) is a collection of some of his critical writings.
Besides receiving the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Warren twice won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry (1958, 1979) and, at the time of his selection as poet laureate in 1986, was the only person ever to win the prize in both categories. In his later years he tended to concentrate on his poetry. - Britannica.com
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James Dickey and Robert Penn Warren discuss writing, 1982.
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Writer Robert Penn Warren earned a place in history for being the only person to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize for both poetry and fiction. More than 70 years after his lauded novel, “All the King’s Men,” was published, he’s still a hero in his hometown of Guthrie, Kentucky.
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Robert Penn Warren reads from his book "All the Kings Men"
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WKU University Reports: Kentucky Poets Jesse Stuart & Robert Penn Warren, 1975
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From Legacy of Civil War by Robert Penn Warren, read by David Blight
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David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of American History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.
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Malcolm X Interview with Robert Penn Warren. 1965
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True Love by Robert Penn Warren (read by Tom O'Bedlam)
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This poem reminds me of this quotation from Citizen Kane. Mr. Bernstein says:
"A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day, back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry, and as we pulled out, there was another ferry pulling in, and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl."
Is this really what true love means? I'd keep that label for a mutually rewarding long-term relationship. Isn't it more a memorable coming-of-age experience, a cathexis?
Robert Penn Warren, portrait by Conrad A. Albrizio,1935 Smithsonian Institution National Portrait Gallery.
In silence the heart raves. It utters words
Meaningless, that never had
A meaning. I was ten, skinny, red-headed,
Freckled. In a big black Buick,
Driven by a big grown boy, with a necktie, she sat
In front of the drugstore, sipping something
Through a straw. There is nothing like
Beauty. It stops your heart. It
Thickens your blood. It stops your breath. It
Makes you feel dirty. You need a hot bath.
I leaned against a telephone pole, and watched.
I thought I would die if she saw me.
How could I exist in the same world with that brightness?
Two years later she smiled at me. She
Named my name. I thought I would wake up dead.
Her grown brothers walked with the bent-knee
Swagger of horsemen. They were slick-faced.
Told jokes in the barbershop. Did no work.
Their father was what is called a drunkard.
Whatever he was he stayed on the third floor
Of the big white farmhouse under the maples for twenty-five years.
He never came down. They brought everything up to him.
I did not know what a mortgage was.
His wife was a good, Christian woman, and prayed.
When the daughter got married, the old man came down wearing
An old tail coat, the pleated shirt yellowing.
The sons propped him. I saw the wedding. There were
Engraved invitations, it was so fashionable. I thought
I would cry. I lay in bed that night
And wondered if she would cry when something was done to her.
The mortgage was foreclosed. That last word was whispered.
She never came back. The family
Sort of drifted off. Nobody wears shiny boots like that now.
But I know she is beautiful forever, and lives
In a beautiful house, far away.
She called my name once. I didn’t even know she knew it.
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Robert Penn Warren reads his poem Love Recognized.
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Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel All the King's Men (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry.
Biography
Early years
Warren was born in Guthrie, Kentucky, which is very near the Tennessee-Kentucky border, to Robert Warren and Anna Penn. Warren's mother's family had roots in Virginia, having given their name to the community of Penn's Store in Patrick County, Virginia, and was a descendant of Revolutionary War soldier Colonel Abram Penn. Robert Penn Warren graduated from Clarksville High School in Clarksville, Tennessee, Vanderbilt University (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in 1925 and the University of California, Berkeley (M.A.) in 1926. Warren pursued further graduate study at Yale University from 1927 to 1928 and obtained his B.Litt. as a Rhodes Scholar from New College, Oxford, in England in 1930. He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study in Italy during the rule of Benito Mussolini. That same year he began his teaching career at Southwestern College (now Rhodes College) in Memphis, Tennessee.
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