{"product_id":"selected-letters-of-robert-penn-warren-triumph-and-transition-1943-1952-hardcover","title":"Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: Triumph and Transition, 1943-1952 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Penn Warren\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, \u003c\/i\u003eVolume three, provides an indispensable glimpse of Warren the writer and the man, covering a crucial decade in his life. Edited by Randy Hendricks and James A. Perkins, and introduced by William Bedford Clark, this collection of largely previously unpublished letters and newly discovered material documents Warren's time at the University of Minnesota, his writing and publication of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel \u003ci\u003eAll the King's Men, \u003c\/i\u003e his appointment as Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress, and his divorce from Emma \"Cinina\" Brescia and subsequent marriage to the writer Eleanor Clark. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe period 1943-1952 also saw the publication of \"A Poem of Pure Imagination\"; \u003ci\u003eWorld Enough and Time;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of Billie Potts\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAt Heaven's Gate\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems, 1923-1943.\u003c\/i\u003e Warren's letters shed new light on those works and on his close relationship with his editors Lambert Davis and Albert Erskine. Included too is correspondence concerning Warren's collaboration with Robert Rossen on the movie production of \u003ci\u003eAll the King's Men, \u003c\/i\u003e which received the Academy Award for best picture in 1949. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe list of friends and colleagues with whom Warren communicated reads like a roll call of major twentieth-century literary figures and clearly shows his ever-widening influence on the world of letters. Spanning a remarkable range in both style and tone, the letters disclose Warren's attitudes toward his work as a teacher and his thoughts on the events of World War II, the Korean War, and the political conflicts in postwar Europe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThoroughly annotated and scrupulously researched, Volume Three captures Warren in an extraordinary phase in his life and career, reaching his maturity and making many commitments at once yet pursuing them all with a seemingly boundless energy.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Penn Warren\u003c\/b\u003e (1905-1989) was born in Guthrie, Kentucky, and attended Vanderbilt University, where he became a member of the Fugitive movement. An acclaimed novelist, poet, critic, and teacher, the author of dozens of books, he was a man of letters in the truest sense. He was the only writer ever to receive Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and poetry. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJames A. Perkins, professor emeritus of English and public relations at Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Cass Mastern Material: The Core of Robert Penn Warren's \"All the King's Men\"\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of Robert Penn Warren's \u003ci\u003e\"All the King's Men\" Three Stage Versions; For the Record: A Robert Drake Reader; Southern Writers at Century's End;\u003c\/i\u003e and the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eBrother Enemy: Poems of the Korean War.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRandy Hendricks is a professor of English at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eLonelier than God: Robert Penn Warren and the Southern Exile \u003c\/i\u003eand a collection of short stories, \u003ci\u003eThe Twelfth Year and Other Times\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eFor the Record: A Robert Drake Reader.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWilliam Bedford Clark is a professor of English at Texas A\u0026amp;M University, the author of \u003ci\u003eThe American Vision of Robert Penn Warren\u003c\/i\u003e, and the editor of volumes one and two of the \u003ci\u003eSelected Letters of Robert Penn Warren\u003c\/i\u003e.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 520\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.52 x 9.3 x 6.48 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46662110478533,"sku":"9780807130858","price":91.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/vC0wclGe6h9780807130858.webp?v=1785914931","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/selected-letters-of-robert-penn-warren-triumph-and-transition-1943-1952-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}