Selected Poems

by Robert Penn Warren, John Burt

Book by Warren, Robert Penn, Burt, John

Genres: Poetry

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1944

About the author

Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for All the King's Men (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry.

Reviews

[Richard Seltzer · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had the honor and privilege of taking a creative writing course with "Red" at Yale in 1969.

[Sarah Rider]

I read Audubon: A Vision by John Burt, for CWR 480 - Research for Writers.

[Stephen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Less an indictment of the poet (a wonderful and in some ways overlooked writer) than the edition-- an introduction to Penn Warren's poetry would benefit from a more judicious selection, and this seems geared toward scholars rather than readers. That said, as regards the work itself, even in the later poems, which seem strongest, the diction is occasionally needlessly archaic and the adjectives are occasionally curiously redundant.