Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren
, by Warren, Robert Penn; Clark, William Bedford; Clark, William Bedford
- ISBN: 9780807126578 | 0807126578
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 4/1/2001
At the beginning of 1935, Robert Penn Warren had every reason to be optimistic about the future. Having escaped the brink of unemployment the previous fall to join fellow Vanderbilt alumnus and Rhodes scholar Cleanth Brooks on the English faculty at Louisiana State University (which was enjoying a boom thanks to the favoritism shown by the Long regime), Warren was destined for arguably the most crucial period in his distinguished career. Against the backdrop of the Great Depression and America's belated entry into World War II, the young author came into his own and established himself as a compelling new voice, perhaps the most versatile writer of his generation.
Continuing where Volume One of the Selected Letters left off, the missives from his Baton Rouge years show Warren exploring and testing the boundaries of his genius on a number of simultaneous fronts. Editing the Southern Review with Brooks was the center of his working life, and it offered him an almost immediate springboard to prominence on both sides of the Atlantic. He attended to his own writin
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