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Robert Penn Warren: a Documentary Volume Contents Dictionary of Literary Biography • Volume Three Hundred Twenty Robert Penn Warren: A Documentary Volume Contents Plan of the Series xxiii Introduction xxv Acknowledgments xxviii Permissions xxx Works by Robert Penn Warren 3 Chronology 8 Launching a Career: 1905-1933 20 Kentucky Beginnings 20 Facsimile: Pages from the Warren family Bible An Old-Time Childhood—from Warren's poem "Old-Time Childhood in Kentucky" The Author and the Ballplayer-from Will Fridy, "The Author and the Ballplayer: An Imprint of Memory in the Writings of Robert Penn Warren" Early Reading-from Ralph Ellison and Eugene Walter, "The Art of Fiction XVIII: Robert Penn Warren" Clarksville High School. '. -. J , 30 Facsimile: Warren's essay on his first day at Clarksville High School Facsimile: First page of "Munk" in The Purple and Gold, February 1921 Facsimile: "Senior Creed" in The Purple and Gold, April 1921 Writing for The Purple and Gold—from Tom Wibking, "Star's Work Seasoned by Country Living" Becoming a Fugitive 38 "Incidental and Essential": Warren's Vanderbilt Experience-from "Robert Penn Warren: A Reminiscence" A First Published Poem-"Prophecy," The Mess Kit (Foodfor Thought) and Warren letter - to Donald M. Kington, 6 March 1975 The Importance of The Fugitive—horn Louise Cowan, The Fugitive Group: A Literary History Brooks and Warren at Vanderbilt-from Cleanth Brooks, "Brooks on Warren" A Fugitive Anthology-Warren letter to Donald Davidson, 19 September 1926 Katherine Anne Porter Remembers Warren—from Joan Givner, Katherine Ann Porter: A Life A Literary Bird Nest—from Brooks, "A Summing Up" The Fugitives as a Group-from Ellison and Walter, "The Art of Fiction XVIII: Robert Penn Warren" Facsimile: Page from a draft of John Brown A Glimpse into the Warren Family 52 Letters from Home: Filial Guilt in Robert Penn Warren-from an essay by William Bedford Clark xiii Contents DLB 320 Warren and Brooks at Oxford-from Brooks, "Brooks on Warren" Facsimile: Warren postcard to his mother, April 1929 A First Book -. 60 Martyr and Fanatic: Review of John Brown-from Allan Nevins, The New Republic, 19 March 1930 "A Vivid Story": Review of John Brown-from L. A. Harper, University of California Chronicle, July 1930 The "Higher-Law Man" and the Civic Order—from Hugh Ruppersburg, Robert Penn Warren and the American Imagination Stumbling into "Prime Leaf'-from Ellison and Walter, "The Art of Fiction XVIII: Robert Penn Warren" Warren's "Briar Patch" 64 A Hamstrung View of Justice—from James E. Ruoff, "Robert Penn Warren's Pursuit of Justice: From Briar Patch to Cosmos" What Might Be Done: The Argument for the Negro in "The Briar Patch"-from John L. Stewart, The Burden of Time: The Fugitives and Agrarians A Pastoral Rebuke—from Louis D. Rubin, The Wary Fugitives: Four Poets and the South A Return to Nashville 68 Happy Years—from "Robert Penn Warren: A Reminiscence" Facsimile: Page from a draft for "The Apple Tree" Poet, Teacher, Novelist: 1934-1950 73 "A Marvelous Arrangement"-Warren letter to Katherine Anne Porter, 22 December 1934 Baton Rouge in the 1930s—Charles East, "Memories of Baton Rouge" The Old War Skule 75 The Origin of the Southern Review--from essay by Cleanth Brooks and Warren Writing, Editing, Teaching—Warren letter to Donald Davidson, 28 February 1935 LSU in the 1930s: Remembering the Boys Next Door-from Robert B. Heilman, "Baton Rouge and LSU Forty Years After" The Swimming Man—Peter Davison, "Questions of Swimming, 1935" Warren and Brooks at LSU—from Brooks, "Brooks on Warren" Working on The Southern Review-from Brooks, "Brooks on Warren" and from Warren remarks in The Southern Review, Original Series, 1935-1942 Reviews of Thirty-Six Poems 85 "The Uncertain Violence of Transition"-from John Holmes, "Five American Poets," Virginia Quarterly Review, April 1936 Problems of Knowledge—from Morton Dauwen Zabel, Poetry, April 1936 Understanding Literature 87 Confronting a "Practical Problem"—from Brooks, "Forty Years of 'Understanding Poetry'" Warren as a Teacher in the 1930s-from Norton R. Girault, "Recollections of Robert Penn Warren as Teacher in the 1930's" xiv DLB 320 Contents Schoolroom Anthology: Review of Understanding Poetry—Eda Lou Walton, New York Herald Tribune Books, 28 August 1938 Practical Criticism and Understanding Poetry--from Monroe K. Spears, "The Critics Who Made Us" The Value of Understanding Poetry--from John M. Bradbury, The Fugitives: A Critical Account Night Rider 91 Tragic Liberal: Review of Might Rider—Christopher Isherwood, New Republic, 31 May 1939 Disclaimer—from Night Rider History and Night Rider-irom Ralph Ellison and Eugene Walter, "The Art of Fiction XVIII: Robert Penn Warren" "Vivid, Sensuous Writing": Review of Night Rider-irom Philip Rahv, "A Variety of Fiction," Partisan Review, Spring 1939 A Story Within a Story—from Warren letter to Allen Tate, January 1939 "A Notable Achievement": Review of Night Rider-from Herbert J. Muller, "Violence upon the Roads," Kenyon Review, Summer 1939 "The Power to Evoke": Review of Night Rider-Anthony West, "New Novels," New Statesman and Nation, 20 January 1940 Munn's Search for Self-knowledge in Night Rider-from Alvan S. Ryan, "Robert Penn Warren's Night Rider: The Nihilism of the Isolated Temperament" The Father-Son Motif in Night Rider-from Randolph Paul Runyon, "Father, Son, and Taciturn Text" ProudFlesh 98 Idealism and Rage in Proud Flesh—essay by John Burt Facsimile: Page from Warren's first draft at Proud Flesh Facsimile: Francis Fergusson letter to Warren, 9 May 1941 Facsimile: First page for the typescript of ProudFlesh Facsimile: Joseph Warren Beach letter to Warren, 5 February 1942 A Time of Transition 109 "Notable Virtues": Review of Eleven Poems on the Same Theme-John Frederick Nims, "Two Intellectual Poets," Poetry, December 1942 Facsimile: First page of Beach's critique of Eleven Poems on the Same Theme Christmas in Minnesota-from Warren letter to John Palmer, 24 December 1942, and Warren letter to Frank Owsley, 25 December 1942 AtHeaven's Gate 113 Mighty like Despair: Review of At Heaven's Gate, Commonweal, 6 August 1943 Passionate Southern Eloquence: Review of At Heaven's Gate—Caroline Gordon, New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review, 22 August 1943 The Shadow of Fact and Fiction—from Ellison and Walter, "The Art of Fiction XVI11: Robert Penn Warren" Facsimile: First page of a typescript draft of At Heaven's Gate Facsimile: Page from typescript draft of At Heaven's Gate Luke Lea's Empire: Review of At Heaven's Gate—Malcolm Cowley, The New Republic, 23 August 1943 Writing by Feeling-"An Interview with Flannery O'Connor and Robert Penn Warren" xv Contents DLB 320 History and Idea in At Heaven's Gate-irom Allen Shepherd, "The Poles of Fiction: Warren's 'At Heaven's Gate'" Selected Poems, 1923-1943 .'. 119 The Inklings of "Original Sin": Review of Selected Poems, 1923-1943—John Crowe Ransom, Saturday Review of Literature, 20 May 1944 Shorthand for Poetry Reviewers—from Leonard Casper, Robert Penn Warren: The Dark and Bloody Ground The Significance of "The Ballad of Billie Potts"-from William Bedford Clark, "A Meditation on Folk-History: The Dramatic Structure of Robert Penn Warren's The Ballad of Billie Potts " Facsimile: Warren letter to Lawrence Thompson, 21 September 1959 "A Poem of Pure Imagination: An Experiment in Reading" 123 Towards Objective Criticism: Review of Warren's Essay on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner—Kenneth Burke, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, April 1947 "The Bird-Church Business"-from Brooks letter to Warren, 5June 1945, and Warren letter to Brooks, 8 June 1945 Facsimile: Frederick A. Pottle letter to Warren, 19 June 1945 On Writing Criticism and the New Criticism—Ellison and Walter, "The Art of Fiction XVIII: Robert Penn Warren" All the King's Men 128 Introduction to All the King's Men—Warren, Modern Library edition Facsimile: Page from an-early draft of the ending of All the King's Men The First Chapter of All the King's Men--from "An Interview with Flannery O'Connor and Robert Penn Warren" Facsimile: First page of the discarded opening chapter Creatingjack Burden—from "An Interview with Flannery O'Connor and Robert Penn Warren" In the Time of All the King's Men—essay by Warren "The Hardest Kind of Audience"-from Brooks letter to Warren, 13 July 1946 Facsimile: William Faulkner letter to Lambert Davis, 25 July 1946 Misreading Willie Stark as Huey Long—from Casper, Robert Penn Warren: The Dark and Bloody Ground "The Problem of Presenting Anne Stanton"—from Warren letter to Donald Davidson, 9 October 1946 "The Dialectical Struggle of Good and Evil": Review of All the King's Men-Diana Trilling, "Fiction in Review," Nation, 24 August 1946 A Teachable Novel—from Earl Wilcox, "Right On! All the King's Men in the Classroom" On the Nature of Things: Review of All the King's Men-George Mayberry, New Republic, 2 September 1946 "High Craftsmanship": Review of All the King's Men-trom Granville Hicks, "Some American Novelists," American Mercury, October 1946 One of Three Novels—from Fergusson, "Three Novels" . Blackberry Winter and The Circus in the Attic 150 "Blackberry Winter": A Recollection—Warren, in Understanding Fiction DLB 320 Contents Facsimile: Page from a draft of Blackberry Winter The Stranger as Mentor in "Blackberry Winter"-fromJames H.Justus, "Warren as Mentor: Pure and Impure Wisdom" Fiedler on Warren's Long Stories-from Leslie A. Fiedler, "The Fate of the Novel," Kenyan Review, Summer 1948 Warren on Teaching 155 Hicks letter to Warren, 9 February 1947 Warren letter to Hicks, 18 February 1947 The Movie of All the King's Men 158 Publicity Notes for All the King's Men World Enough and Time 162 Through the Iron Gates: Review of World Enough and Time—Carlos Baker, Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1950 Facsimile: First page from an early draft of World Enough and Time Erskine as Editor-from Warren letter to Brooks, 12 September 1949 Warren's World Enough and Time: "Et in Arcadia Ego"—from essay by Richard G.
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