{"product_id":"the-collected-poems-of-robert-penn-warren","title":"The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the C. Hugh Holman Award  A central figure in twentieth-century American literature  Robert Penn Warren (19051989) was appointed by the Library of Congress as the first Poet Laureate of the United States in 1985. Although better known for his fiction  especially his novel All the Kings Men  it is mainly his poetryspanning sixty years  fifteen volumes of verse  and a wide range of stylesthat reveals Warren to be one of Americas foremost men of letters.  In this indispensable volume  John Burt  Warrens literary executor  has assembled every poem Warren ever published (with the exception of Brother to Dragons)  including the many poems he published in The Fugitive and other magazines  as well as those that appeared in his small press works and broadsides. Burt has also exhaustively collated all of the published versions of Warrens poemswhich  in some cases  appeared as many as six different times with substantive revisions in every lineas well as his typescripts and proofs. And since Warren never seemed to reread any of his books without a pencil in his hand  Burt has referred to Warrens personal library copies. This comprehensive edition also contains textual notes  lists of emendations  and explanatory notes.  Warren was born and raised in Guthrie  Kentucky  where southern agrarian values and a predilection for storytelling were ingrained in him as a young boy. By 1925  when he graduated from Vanderbilt University  he was already the most promising of that exceptional set of poets and intellectuals known as the Fugitives. Warren devoted most of the 1940s and 1950s to writing prose and literary criticism  but from the late 1950s he composed primarily poetry  with each successive volume of verse that he penned demonstrating his rigorous and growing commitment to that genre. The mature visionary power and technical virtuosity of his work in the 1970s and early 1980s emanated from his strongly held belief that only insofar as the work of art establishes and expresses a self can it engage us. Many of Warrens later poems  which he deemed some of my best  rejoice in the possibilities of old age and the poets ability for continually expanding in a vital process of definition  affirmation  revision  and growth  a process that is the image  we may say  of the life process.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44952042438709,"sku":"ByrdShop_0807123331","price":57.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807123331.jpg?v=1770149817","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-collected-poems-of-robert-penn-warren","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}