Robert Penn Warren

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Robert Penn Warren

• By Chris G.

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Robert Penn Warren

• Born in 1905
• Attended Vanderbilt University in 1921
• Taught at Vanderbilt, Louisiana State, The
  University of Minnesota, and Yale University
• Died in 1989

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Poems

• XXXVI Poems
• Eleven Poems on the Same Theme
• Brother to Dragons
• Promises Poems
• You, Emperors and Others
• Incarnations
• And many more

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Novels

• John Brown The Making of a Martyr
•  I'll Take My Stand The South and the Agrarian
  Tradition
• Understanding Poetry
• Understanding Fiction
• Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Modern Rhetoric

• Fundamentals of Good Writing
• Segregation The Inner Conflict in the South
• Selected Essays
• Who Speaks for the Negro?
• Homage to Theodore Dreiser

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Poetry Clubs

• became the youngest member of the group of
  Southern poets called the Fugitives
• included John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Donald
  Davidson, and Merrill Moore

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Awards

• His book All the Kings Men won the Pulitzer Prize
  in 1947
• His Promises Poems won the Sidney Hillman Award,
  the Edna St. Vincent Millay Memorial Award, the
  National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize in
  1954-1956
• His book Now and Then Poems also won a Pulitzer
  Prize in 1979