TY  - BOOK
AU  - Watkins,Floyd C.
TI  - Then & now: the personal past in the poetry of Robert Penn Warren 
SN  - 9780813164854
AV  - PS3545 .T446 1982
PY  - 1982///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Warren, Robert Penn,
KW  - Warren family
KW  - Biography in literature
KW  - Self in literature
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Sources and Documentation; 1. Creation and Criticism; 2. The Penns, the Warrens, and the Boy; Cerulean Springs; Guthrie; The Family; The Boy and the Poetry; 3. Guthrie and Cerulean Springs; Early Poems; Some Blacks-Two Early Poems and a Sequel; Years without Poems and the New Beginnings; Boyhood; Some Townspeople; Some Tragedies; Old Memories; 4. Now and Then-Father, Mother, Friend, Self; Frontier; The Late 1800s; Childhood-The Early 1900s; The 1920s and 1930s-The Mother; The 1940s and 1950s-The Father; The 1970s-The Friend; The 1970s and the PastReferences; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; 2; b
N2  - Taking a new approach to the study of Robert Penn Warren's imposing and still growing poetic canon, Floyd C. Watkins has found in the poems what he describes as a ""poetic autobiography"" unparalleled in American letters. Drawing on interviews with Warren, members of his family, and contemporaries from his hometown, but keeping the poetry itself constantly at the center of his vision, Watkins shows how the poetry has grown from the experience of the boy and man and from his contemplation of his family's and his country's history. He traces through the poems a family chronicle, moving from the
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