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Then & now : the personal past in the poetry of Robert Penn Warren / Floyd C. Watkins

Author
Watkins, Floyd C.
Published
Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, [1982]
Copyright Date
©1982
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 184 pages)
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Sources & Documentation; 1. Creation & Criticism; 2. The Penns, the Warrens, & the Boy; Cerulean Springs; Guthrie; The Family; The Boy & the Poetry; 3. Guthrie & Cerulean Springs; Early Poems; Some Blacks-Two Early Poems & a Sequel; Years without Poems & the New Beginnings; Boyhood; Some Townspeople; Some Tragedies; Old Memories; 4. Now & Then-Father, Mother, Friend, Self; Frontier; The Late 1800s; Childhood-The Early 1900s; The 1920s & 1930s-The Mother; The 1940s & 1950s-The Father; The 1970s-The Friend. and The 1970s & the PastReferences; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
Summary
Taking a new approach to the study of Robert Penn Warren's imposing and still growing poetic canon, Floyd C. Watkins has found in the poems what he describes as a ""poetic autobiography"" unparalleled in American letters. Drawing on interviews with Warren, members of his family, and contemporaries from his hometown, but keeping the poetry itself constantly at the center of his vision, Watkins shows how the poetry has grown from the experience of the boy and man and from his contemplation of his family's and his country's history. He traces through the poems a family chronicle, moving from the.
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ISBN
9780813164854 (electronic bk.)
0813164850 (electronic bk.)
081311456X
9780813114569
0813155231
9780813155234
Related Titles
Then and now
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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