Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren ( born April 24, 1905 in Guthrie, Todd County, Kentucky, † September 15, 1989 in Stratton, Vermont ) was an American writer and literary critic. He has published 16 volumes of poetry and 10 novels. He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet laureate of the United States 1944-45. His novel All the King's Men ( Eng.: "The game of power" ) is considered one of the most significant political novels of American literature of the 20th century.

Life

Warren, the oldest of three children and the son of the banker Robert Franklin Warren and the teacher Anna Ruth Penn Warren was highly gifted. In the spring of 1921 he lost his left eye in an accident. In the following summer, he published his first poem, Prophecy. In the fall of 1921, he went at the age of 16 years at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

He was married twice, from 1929 to 1951 with Emma " Cinina " Brescia. From his second marriage to Eleanor Clark his children, Rosanna Phelps Warren and Gabriel Penn Warren came.

Warren died on September 15, 1989 in his home in Vermont to cancer.

Writings

Novels

• Night Rider, Houghton, (1939 )
• All the King 's Men, Harcourt, (1946 ), ( Pulitzer Prize ), dt: "The game of power." From the Amerikan. by Ilse Kramer. Completeness. revised. and erg of Philip Laubach - Kiani, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-453-43125-1
• World Enough and Time, Random House, (1950 )
• Band of Angels, Random House, (1955 )
• The Cave, Random House, (1959 )
• Wilderness: A Tale of the Civil War, Random House, (1961 )
• Flood: A Romance of Our Time, Random House, (1964 )
• Meet Me in the Green Glen, Random House, (1971 )
• A Place to Come To, Random House, (1977 )

Poetry

• Thirty-six Poems, Alcestis Press, ( 1936)
• Eleven Poems on the Same Theme, New Directions, (1942 )
• Selected Poems: 1923-1943, Harcourt, (1944 )
• Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices, Random House, (1953 ), ( Book Length)
• Promises: Poems 1954-1956, Random House, (1957 ), ( Pulitzer Prize )
• You, Emperors, and Others: Poems 1957-1960, Random House, (1960 )
• Selected Poems: New and Old, 1923-1966, Random House, (1966 )
• Incarnations: Poems 1966-1968, Random House, (1968 )
• Audubon: A Vision, Random House, ( 1969) ( Book Length)
• Or Else: Poem / Poems 1968-1974, Random House, (1974 )
• Selected Poems: 1923-1976, Random House, (1977 )
• Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978, Random House, (1978 ), ( Pulitzer Prize )
• Being Here: Poetry 1977-1980, Random House, (1980 )
• Rumor Verified: Poems 1979-1980, Random House, (1981 )
• Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, Random House, (1983 ), ( Book Length)
• New & Selected Poems: 1923-1985, Random House, (1985 )

Plays by Warren

• Robert Penn Warren: Blood on the Moon. A play in 3 acts. In the stage adaptation of Erwin Piscator. German version of Erwin Piscator and Hellmut Schlien. Emsdetten. Lechte o.J. ( All the King's Men)

Films

Secondary literature

• Joseph Blotner: Robert Penn Warren: A Biography. New York: Random House, 1997.
• John Burt: Robert Penn Warren and American Idealism. New Haven, Conn. [ inter alia ]: Yale University Press 1988.
• James A. Grimshaw ( ed.): Robert Penn Warren: A Documentary Volume. Detroit [ inter alia ]: Thomson Gale, 2006.
• James A. Grimshaw ( ed.): Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men: Three Stage Versions. Athens, Ga.: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2000.
• Randolph Runyon: The Taciturn Text: The Fiction of Robert Penn Warren. Ohio State University Press, Columbus OH 1990. ISBN 0814205305 ( digitized on the sides of the publisher in full control)