Department of Library Special Collection Kentucky Building Western Kentucky University Bowling Green, Kentucky
Robert Penn Warren Library Joseph Blotner Archives
Most of these manila folder files contain a wide variety of materials including my own interviews, notes and outlines, newspaper and magazine clippings, minutes of meetings, short unpublished essays, correspondence, Warren literary works plus introductory summary sheets and indexes. Xeroxes includes pages from Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine archives, collections in the Beinecke Library, (YUL); University of Kentucky, (UKy); Princeton University, (PUL); Library of Congress, (LoC); University of Maryland, (UMd); Vanderbilt University (VU); University of Virginia (UVa); and Random House, (RH) among others. The pages recorded in the totals are of all kinds and sizes.
BOX 1
Folder1 Spiral notebook: Index locator file: people. places, & etc.. 80 p.
Folder 2 Legal pad: poem summaries & disk nos., 60 p.
Folders: Miscellaneous, Person, years, magazines, institutions
Folder 3 Miscellaneous, 40 p.
Folder 4 Notes on books read, 20 p.
Folder 5 Brief genealogy, 35 p.
Folder 6 Mary Mexico Penn genealogy & charts, 124 p.
Folder 7 The Penn family of Virginia, 69 p.
Folder 8 RPW medical history, 233 p.
Folder 9 Robert Franklin Warren (father), 30 p.
Folder 10 Ruth Penn Warren (mother), 4 p.
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Folder 11 Parents, siblings & other ancestors, 24 p.
Folder 12 Childhood, 53 p.
Folder 13 Guthrie, Ky., 31 p.
Folder 14 1917-1920, 12 p.
Folder 15 1920, 10 p.
Folder 16 Vanderbilt University, 164 p.
BOX 2
Folder 1 1921, 46 p.
Folder 2 1922, 11 p.
Folder 3 1923, 17 p.
Folder 4 1924, 76 p.
Folder 5 1925, 35 p.
Folder 6 U. of Cal., Berkley, 83 p.
Folder 7 1926, 43 p.
Folder 8 1927, 80 p.
Folder 9 1928, 40 p.
Folder 10 Rhodes Scholarship, 61 p.
Folder 11 1929, 73 p.
Folder 12a 1930, 49 p.
Folder 12b RPW Thesis: “A Study of John Martson Satires” (1928)
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Folder 13 1931, 153 p.
Folder 14 1932, 20 p.
Folder 15 1933, 34 p.
BOX 3
Folder 1a 1934, 74 p.
Folder 1b M. Thomas Inge on the Agrarians, 41 p.
Folder 2 The Southern Review, 20 p.
Folder 3 1935, 104 p.
Folder 4 1936, 42 p.
Folder 5 1937, 41 p.
Folder 6 1938, 56 p.
Folder 7 1939, 126 p.
Folder 8 1940, 98 p.
Folder 9 LSU houses, 19 p.
Folder 10 1941, 79 p.
Folder 11 1942, 149 p.
Folder 12 1943, 29 p.
Folder 13 1944, 97 p.
Folder 14 1945, 52 p.
Folder 15 1946, 83 p.
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BOX 4
Folder 1 1947, 70 p.
Folder 2 1948, 46 p.
Folder 3 1949, 43 p.
Folder 4 1950, 57 p.
Folder 5 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 115 p.
Folder 6 1951, 97 p.
Folder 7 1952, 45 p.
Folder 8 1953, 62 p.
Folder 9 1954, 41 p.
Folder 10 1955, 37 p.
Folder 11 1956, 48 p.
Folder 12 1957, 39 p.
Folder 13 1958, 38 p.
Folder 14 1959, 47 p.
Folder 15 1960, 54 p.
Folder 16 1961, 56 p.
Folder 17 1962, 57 p.
BOX 5
Folder 1 1963, 63 p.
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Folder 2 1964, 37 p.
Folder 3 1965, 138 p.
Folder 4 1966, 89 p.
Folder 5 1967, 69 p.
Folder 6 1968, 31 p.
Folder 7 1969, 53 p.
Folder 8 1970, 77 p.
Folder 9 1971, 36 p.
Folder 10 1972, 79 p.
Folder 11 1973, 125 p.
Folder 12 1974, 113 p.
BOX 6
Folder 1 1975, 138 p.
Folder 2 1976, 94 p.
Folder 3 1977, 107 p.
Folder 4 1978, 32 p.
Folder 5 1979, 49 p.
Folder 6 1980, 144 p.
Folder 7 1981, 69 p.
Folder 8 1982, 34 p.
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Folder 9 1983, 53 p.
Folder 10 1984, 49 p.
Folder 11 1985, 85 p.
Folder 12 1986, 63 p.
BOX 7
Folder 1 1987, 90 p.
Folder 2 1988, 21 p.
Folder 3 1989, 90 p.
Folders on IB ms. & RPW poems
Folder 4 Notes for revision of RPW: A Biog. To JB from Robert Loomis, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Cleanth Brooks, and Charles Fast, 42 p.
Folder 5 To be dated and located, 64 p.
Folder 6 Poems, general; list of contents of Stuart Wright projects edition of RPW Complete Poems, 56 p.
Folder 7 Individual Poems, 77 p.
Folder 8 Biographical sketches of RPW, 28 p.
Folder 9 Shack One and Shack Two (Vermont), 19 p.
Folder 10 Individual stories, 42 p.
Folder 11 Driftwood Flames & early poems from various magazines, 66 p.
Folder 12 The Fugitive, 1922: Apr., June, Oct., Dec. , 126 p.
Folder 13 The Fugitive, 1923: June-July, Aug.-Sept., Oct., Dec., 191 p.
Folder 14 The Fugitive, 1924: Feb., Apr., June, Aug., Dec., 161 p.
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Folder 15 The Fugitive, 1925: March, June, Sept., Dec., 128 p.
Folder 16 The Fugitive & The Fugitives, 78 p.
Folders on individual works, containing many different kinds of materials
Folder 17 John Brown: The Making of a Martyr, 17 p.
Folder 18 I’ll Take My Stand, 23 p.
BOX 8
Folder 1 God’s Own Time (unpublished novel), includ. Correspondence, notes, typescript, readers’ reports, UKy, xerox, 320 p.
Folder 2 Prime Leaf, 12 p.
Folder 3 Second unpublished novel, untitled, ts. UKy, xerox, 251 p.
Folder 4 36 poems, reviews, 2 p.
Folder 5 Understanding Poetry, 39 p.
Folder 6 Unpublished student essays on the Black Patch War, 72 p.
Folder 7 Night Rider, incl. Holograph & typed notes UKy, xerox, 43 p.
Folder 8 Proud Flesh, incl. Correspondence, notes, ts., YUL, PUL, xerox, 157 p.
Folder 9 11 Poems on the Same Theme, incl. Notes reviews, 2 p.
Folder 10 Understanding Fiction, 1p.
Folder 11 At Heaven’s Gate, incl. JB summary & notes, RPW & Andrew Lytle 6 interviews, reviews 18 p.
Folder 12 Selected Poems: 1923-1943, 10 p.
Folder 13 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1 p.
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BOX 9
Folder 1 All the King’s Men, 208 p.
Folder 2 All the King’s Men (play) ts. YUL, xerox, 99 p.
Folder 3 The Circus in the Attic and Other Stories, 11 p.
Folder 4 Modern Rhetoric, 4 p.
Folder 5 All the King’s Men (film), 20 p.
Folder 6 World Enough and Time, incl. RH correspondence, 71 p.
Folder 7 The Wedding Ring ts. UKy, xerox, 107 p.
Folder 8 Brother to Dragons (1953), 46 p.
Folder 9 Willie Stark: His Rise and Fall fragment, UKy
Folder 10 Band of Angels fragment UKy
Folder 11 “Segregation” tearsheets, magazine version
Folder 12 Promises: Poems 1954-1956, 28 p.
Folder 13 “How Texas Won Her Freedom” magazine, xerox, 9 p.
Folder 14 Selected Essays, 4 p.
Folder 15 Remember the Alamo ts. RH, xerox, 13 p.
Folder 16 The Cave, 30 p.
Folder 17 The Gods of Mount Olympus, 81 p.
Folder 18 You, Emperors, and Others: Poems 1957-1960, 27 p.
Folder 19 The Legacy of the Civil War , 16 p.
Folder 20 Wilderness, 41 p.
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Folder 21 An Approach to Literature (rev. ed. ), 5 p.
Folder 22 The American Academy in Rome, 90 p.
Folder 23 Flood, 47 p.
BOX 10
Folder 1 Who Speaks for the Negro, 29 p.
Folder 2 So Clear, O Victory, fragment of unfinished novel UKy xerox, 63 p.
Folder 3 Selected Poems: New and Old: 1923-1966, 30 p.
Folder 4 Incarnations: Poems 1966-1968, 6 p.
Folder 5 Audubon: A Vision, 68 p.
Folder 6 Selected Poems of Herman Melville 6 p.
Folder 7 John Greenleaf Whittier’s Poetry, 2 p.
Folder 8 Homage to Theodore Dreiser, 8 p.
Folder 9 Meet Me in the Green Glen, 113 p.
Folder 10 American Literature: The Makers and the Making, 127 p.
Folder 11 Or Else –Poem/Poems: 1968-1974, 88 p.
Folder 12 Brother to Dragons, video, 22 p.
Folder 13 Democracy and Poetry, 1 p.
Folder 14 Selected Poems: 1923-1975, 49 p.
Folder 15 Willie Stark, opera, 50 p.
Folder 16 Ballad of a Sweet Dream of Peace, 32 p.
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Folder 17 A Place to Come To, 41 p.
Folder 18 Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978, 12 p.
Folder 19 Brother to Dragons: A new version, 11 p.
Folder 20 Robert Penn Warren Speaking, 3 p.
Folder 21 “[Nashville:] A Remembrance”, 45 p.
Folder 22 “Portrait of a Father”, 45 p.
Folder 23 Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back, 9 p.
Folder 24 Life Is a Fable (Being Here), ts, xerox VU, 88 p.
Folder 25 Being Here: Poetry 1977-1980, 39 p.
BOX 11
Folder 1 Rumor Verified: Poems 1979-1980, 7 p.
Folder 2 Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, 62 p.
Folder 3 New and Selected Poems: 1923-1985I, 10 p.
Folder 4 Portrait of a Father (1988), 5 p.
Folder 5 Collected Essays, 3 p.
Folder 6 A Robert Penn Warren Reader, 1 p.
Unpublished interviews, done in the University of Kentucky Robert Penn Warren Oral History project, unless otherwise noted.
Subject
Folder 7 RPW 01, 129 p.
Folder 8 RPW 02, 68 p.
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Folder 9 RPW 15, 115 p.
Folder 10 RPW 18, 44 p.
Folder 11 RPW 20, 15 p.
Folder 12 RPW unnumbered, 27 p.
Folder 13 RPW [34 p. int. by William Ferris]
Folder 14 Mary Warren Barber, 4 p.
Folder 15 Northrup Beach 14 p.
Folder 16 Saul Bellow, 11 p.
Folder 17 Eric Bentley, 16 p.
Folder 18 Harold Bloom, 17 p.
Folder 19 Cleanth Brooks [includes 30 p. int. by JB & 28 p. int. by William Ferris & 19 p. copy & 19 p. duplicate copy], 23 p.
Folder 20 Emma Cinina Brescia Warren, [first wife of RPW], 95 p.
Folder 21 Prof. Huntington & Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, 23 p.
Folder 22 File of materials, chiefly xeroxes of letters, deposited by Elizabeth Brown in University of Minnesota Library, 46 p.
Folder 23 Matthew Bruccoli, 12 p.
Folder 24 Ken Burns [13 p. int by JB]
BOX 12
Folder 1 Robert Brustein, 21 p.
Folder 2 RPW [12 p. int. by Alexander S. Crouch]
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Folder 3 Lambert Davis [41 p. int by JB, 5 p. xeroxed article and notes], 41 p.
Folder 4 Peter Davidson [6 p. xeroxed letters from Beinecke Library & 2 p. notes by JB], 51 p.
Folder 5 James Dickey, 21 p.
Folder 6 Richard Eberhart, 30 p.
Folder 7 John Egerton [3 p. int. by JB]
Folder 8 RPW [51 p. published int. by Ralph Ellison and others]
Folder 9 John Ervin, 15 p.
Folder 10 Charles H. Foster [int. by JB, corrected draft, miscellaneous letters], 22 p.
Folder 11 John Kenneth Galbraith [2 p. int. by JB]
Folder 12 Isabella Gardner, 16 p.
Folder 13 James A. Grimshaw, Jr. [reminiscence of RPW& xerox letters] 36 p.
Folder 14 Margaret Hemphill [6 p. letter to JB]
Folder 15 Robert B. Heilman [letter to JN], 35 p.
Folder 16 John Hollander, 3 p.
Folder 17 Kirby Thomas [17 p. int by JB] 17 p.
Folder 18 Lewis R.B.W. [19 p. in by JB, clipping], 20 p.
Folder 19 Frederick Manfred [25 p. int. by JB & 2 p. letter]
Folder 20 Samuel Holt Monk, 12 p.
Folder 21 David Milch [22 p. int. by JB & 2 p. letter to JB]
Folder 22 Mary O’ Connor [8 p. letter to JB], 8 p.
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Folder 23 Harriet Owsley [22 p. book ms & letter to JB]
Folder 24 John Palmer [2 p. letter to RPW and ECBW], 25 p.
Folder 25 Pier Maria Pasinetti [3 p. int by JB, letter to JB, 17 p. published int.]
Folder 26 Leo & Rosalind Pflaum, 26 p.
Folder 27 David Quammon [7 p. & 4 p. letters to JB], 11 p.
BOX 13
Folder 1 John Crowe Ransome [13 p. RPW ts of obituary for, 22 p. xerox of Cleanth Brooks American Scholar memorial article]
Folder 2 Danforth Ross [16 p. letter of RPW reminiscences to JB]
Folder 3 Louis D. Rubin, Jr. [18 p. int. by JB], 1 p.
Folder 4 Arthur H. Scouten [24 p. RPW & Karl Shapiro letters from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center]
Folder 5 Karl Shapiro, 16 p.
Folder 6 Lewis P. Simpson [49 ts. p. of published essays about RPW]
Folder 7 Calvin Skaggs [66 xerox p. of unpublished ints. with Katherine Anne Porter]
Folder 8 Francis Steegmuller, 25 p.
Folder 9 Arnold Stein [9 p. of RPW reminiscences to JB], 26 p.
Folder 10 John L. Stewart, 28 p.
Folder 11 Elizabeth B. Stommel [18 p. of letters & RPW reminiscences to JB]
Folder 12 Victor Strandberg, 20
Folder 13 William Styron [6 p. of JB notes] 23 p.
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Folder 14 Jane Sullivan [16 p. of reminiscences of RPW to JB]
Folder 15 Leonard Unger [4 p. letter of reminiscences], 15 p.
Folder 16 RPW22 Brenda Ueland, 22 p.
Folder 17 Marshall Walker [87 xerox p. of corr. With RPW]
Folder 18 RPW [20 p. int. by Gabriel Penn Warren & 3 p. of letters to JB]
Folder 19 Floyd Watkins [9 p. typescript, RPW recollections]
Folder 20 RPW [19 p. int. by Mary Louise Weaks, edited by RPW & 12 p. of letters]
Folder 21 Rene Wellek, 13 p.
Folder 22 Eudora Welty [11 p. int. by JB] Folder 23 Vann Woodward [78 p. of clippings, int. and corr.]
Folder 24 Herbert Woodman [6 p. int. by JB]
Folder 25 Stephen Wright [35 p. int. by JB]
Folder 26 RPW [int, by Mary Wyville], 2 p.
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Folders of miscellaneous materials
Folder 1 Rejected & used materials: letters, clippings, 45 p.
Folder 2 Print, xerox, & tww. Of critical & bibliographical essays
Folder 3 Critical & bibliographical essays
Folder 4 RPW essays & intros., introdications: print and xerox, 109 p.
Folder 5 Interview notes, later transcribed, miscellaneous notes, & Beinecke notes, 345 p.
Folder 6 Things to do, 15 p.
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Folder 7 People who will help, 18 p.
Folder 8 RPW materials at UKy, RPWOHP, 133 p.
Folder 9 Correspondence, RPW-JB-ECW, 77 p.
Folder 10 RPW indexes & bibliography, Comp. Dieesrtation Query Service, Dissertation abstracts on line, Univ, Microfilms, 91 p.
BOX 15
Folder 1 RPW Circle Newsletter, 6 mos., 35 p.
Trip Files These folders contain correspondence, schedules, maps, and lists of interviewees.
Folder 2 Baton Rouge, LSU, 8 p.
Folder 3 Charlottesville, UVa, 16 p.
Folder 4 District of Columbia, Library of Congress, 18 p.
Folder 5 Emory University [list of RPW holdings, Watkins notes], 24 p.
Folder 6 University of Minnesota [list of RPW holdings], 18 p.
Folder 7 Beinecke Library {RPW holdings], 38 p.
Folder 8 New York City, 10 p.
Folder 9 Princeton University [RPW control folders, photocopy, records], 65 p. [2 rolls of positive microfilm of Allen Tate correspondence with John Peale Bishop papers]
Folder 10 University of the South, Sewanee, 13 p.
Folder 11 Vanderbilt University & Nashville, 34 p.
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Folder 12 West Wardsboro, Vt. [Warren summer home], 9 p.
Folder 13 WKy & Gutherie [Center for RPW Studies, minutes and programs], 89 p.
RPW Research Costs
Folder 14 1987, 39 p.
Folder 15 1988, 101 p.
Folder 16 1989, 26 p.
Folder 17 1990, 40 p.
Folder 18 1991-1993, 35 p.
RPW Center Colloquia & Meetings These folders contain notes, programs, reports, and correspondance.
Folder 19 First annual RPW Colloquium, 1998, 10 p.
Folder 20 Second annual RPW Colloquium, 1989, 9 p.
Folder 21 RPW Circle & Center Colloquium, 1992 - second joint annual meeting, 11 p.
Folder 22 RPW Circle & Center Colloquium, 1993 - third joint annual meeting, 33 p.
Folder 23 Annual Meeting, Center for RPW Studies, 1996, 6 p.
Folder 24 Annual Meeting, Center for RPW Studies, 1998, 2 p.
Folder 25 RPW Journal, 21 p.
BOXES 16-23
Drafts of Robert Penn Warren: A Biography
Typescript first draft (IBM & AppleMac) 73 chapters Chpts. 1-12, 144 p.
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13-22, 160 p. 23-35, 244 p. 36-45 - chapter 40 missing, chapter 38 begins a new printer, 165 p. 46-54, 149 p. 55-64, 189 p. 65-73, 140 p.
Typescript first draft with holographic revisions, Chpts 1-73, Books 1-7, 1214 p.
Typescript second draft with holograph revisions, Chpts 1-54, Books 1-7, 1214 p.
Duplicate Book One, 144 p.
Revised second draft used by Random House editor Robert D. Loomis, 1214 p.
Duplicate chapters with comments, 88 p.
Folder 1 [pages with quotations marked for Random House Permissions, pages cannibalized for Princeton University and other permissions], 200 p.
Folder 2, 200 p.
Typescript of final draft (Macintosh Iisi), 808
Setting copy, 808 p.
Page proof & ts. index [author’s galleys, 577 pp; ts. index, 84 p.]661 p.
Proof first pass, 661 p.
Proof second pass, 661 p.
BOX 24
Folder 1 Miscellaneous
Folder 2 Sam Pestridge
Folder 3 Photos and negatives
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Folder 4 Photocopies of photos
Folder 5 Photocopies of photos to be used
Stray photos
BOX 25
Other recordings
Presenting RPW: Poetvision, n.p., Rohm & Haas Co., 1988 3 video tapes: 20.22, 18.13, & 17.37 minutes; 42 p. booklet.
Recording. “Robert Penn Warren Reads Selected Poems. 1923-1978" n.p. Harper Collins, 1980. Side1 26.25 minutes, side 2 26.18 minutes. Kept in the blue cabinet in RPW Library.
BOX 26
Disks and tapes Floppy disks: transcribed interviews, ms., chpts., & backups
Verbatium Data Life 25 2D-MD 550-D1 floppy disks, 40
Sony High Density MFD-2HD disks, 33
BOX 27
Realistic MC90 Micro cassette tapes of interviews, 22
Radio Shack Micro cassette tapes of interviews, 8
Supertape MII-60 [Charles H. Foster], 4
Bibliography
This bibliography was compiled by Joseph Blotner. The materials listed may be in the RPW Library’s holdings, but they were not purchased as part of the Blotner Archives.
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Published Works by RPW
“A Study of John Martson’s Satires,” Oxford University B.Litt. thesis, Bodleian Library, 1930, Bodleian Shelfmark D216, 108 p. xerox of ts. & 3 p. of correspondence & analysis.
John Brown: The Making of a Martyr (1929), repr. Nashville: J.S. Saunders & Co. 1993, xvii & 474 p.
An Approach to Literature, Cleanth Brooks, John Thiubault Purser, and Robert Penn Warren, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1975.
Night Rider, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1939.
Eleven Poems on the Same Theme (paper), Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1942. [Inscribed to Joseph Blotner)
Understanding Fiction (paper), Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1979.
At Heavens Gate (paper), New York: New Directions, 1943.
All the King’s Men, New York: Grossett & Dunlap, 1946.
The Circus in the Attic and Other Stories (paper), San Diego, California: Harcourt Brace Jovanich, 1947.
World Enough and Time, New York: Random House, 1950.
Band of Angels, New York: Random House, 1955.
Promises: Poems 1954-1956, New York: Random House, 1957.
Selected Essays, New York: Random House, 1958.
The Cave, New York: Random House, 1959.
All the King’s Men: A Play, New York: Random House, 1960.
You, Emperors, and Others: Poems 1957-1960, New York: Random House, 1960.
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The Legacy of the Civil War, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1983.
Wilderness: A Tale of the Civil War, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1961.
Flood: A Romance of Our Time, New York: Random House, 1964.
Who Speaks for the Negro?, New York: Random House, 1964.
Selected Poems: New and Old 1923-1966, New York: Random House, 1966.
Faulkner: A Collection of Critical Essays (ed. B=by RPW), Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1966.
Incarnations: Poems 1966-1968, New York: Random House, 1968.
Homage to Theodore Dreiser, New York: Random House, 1971.
Meet Me in the Green Glen, New York: Random House, 1971.
American Literature: The Makers and the Making (paper), Cleanth Brooks, R.W.B. Lewis, & Robert Penn Warren, New York: St. Martin’s Press, Vols I & II, 1973.
Or Else - Poem/Poems: 1968-1974, New York: Random House, 1974.
Selected Poems: 1923-1975, New York: Random House, 1976.
A Place to Come To, New York: Random House, 1977.
Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices, New York: Random House, 1979.
Being Here: Poetry 1977-1980, New York: Random House, 1980.
Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back, Lexington: University of Kentucky, 1980.
Rumor Verified: Poems 1979-1980, New York: Random House, 1981.
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, New York: Random House, 1985. [Inscribed to Joseph Blotner]
New and Selected Essays, New York: Random House, 1989.
Works by Eleanor Clark
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Rome and a Villa, New York: Pantheon Books, 1974.
The Oysters of Locmariaquer (paper), New York: Vintage Books, 1966. [Inscribed to Joseph Blotner]
Camping Out, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1986. [Inscribed to Joseph Blotner]
Tamarat: 13 Days in the Sahara, n.p.: Stuart Wright, Publisher, 1984.
Works about RPW, his work and its backgrounds
Sochatoff, A. Fred, ed.l. et al. All the King’s Men: A Symposium, Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1957.
Bendient, Calvin. In the Heart’s Last Kingdom: Robert Penn Warren’s Major Poetry,: Cambridge, California, Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1966.
Beebe, Maurice. All the King’s Men: A Critical Handbook, ed. et al., Belmont California, Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1966.
Burt, John. Robert Penn Warren and American Idealism, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
Clark, William Bedford. The American Vision of Robert Penn Warren, Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1991.
Cutrer, Thomas W. Parnassus on the Mississippi: The Southern Review and the Baton Rouge Literary Community, 1935-1942, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: LSU Press, 1985.
Walter, Edgar B. ed., A Southern Renaissance Man: Views of Robert Penn Warren, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: LSU Press, 1984.
Grimshaw, James A., Jr. ed. Time’s Glory: Original Essays of Robert Penn Warren, n.p.: University of Central Arkansas Press, 1986.
_____, Robert Penn Warren’s Brother to Dragons: A Discussion. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: LSU Press, 1983.
Harvard, William C. & S. Walter, ed. A Band of Prophet: The Vanderbilt Agrarians After Fifty Years, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: LSU Press, 1982.
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Heilman, Robert B. The Southern Connection: Essays by Robert Bechtold Heilman, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: LSU Press, 1991.
Inge, Thomas M. Agrarianism in American Literature, New York: The Odyssey Press, 1969.
Jenkins, William Marshall, Jr. Of Words and Men: The Remembrances of Robert Penn Warren [RPW monologue constructed from his works, unpublished]
Longley, John Lewis, Jr. ed. Robert Penn Warren: A Collection of Critical Essays, New York: NYU Press, 1965.
McFerrin, John Berry. Caldwell and Company: A Southern Financial Empire, Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1969.
Millichap, Joseph R. Robert Penn Warren: A Study of the Short Fiction, New York: Tweyne Publishers, 1992.
Nakadate, Neil, ed. Robert Penn Warren: Critical Perspectives, Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1981.
Owsley, Harriet, Frank Lawrence Owsley. Historian of the Old South (paper), Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1990.
Runyon, Paul Randolph. The Braided Dream: Robert Penn Warren’s Late Poetry, Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press, 1990. [Inscribed to Joseph Blotner]
____. The Taciturn Text: The Fiction of Robert Penn Warren, Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University Press, 1990.
Rubin, Louis D., Jr. I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (paper), Baton Rouge, Louisiana: LSU Press, 1962.
____, and Robert Jacobs, ed. Southern Renascence: The Literature of the Modern South, Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1953.
Ruppersburg, Hugh. Robert Penn Warren and the American Imagination, Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1990.
Simpson, Lewis P., et. al. ed. The Southern Review and Modern Literature: 1935-1985, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: LSU Press, 1988.
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Strandberg, Victor. The Poetic Vision of Robert Penn Warren, Lexington, Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press, 1977.
Sullivan, Walter. Allen Tate: A Recollection, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: LSU Press, 1988.
Waldron, Ann. Close Connections: Caroline Gordon and the Southern Renaissance (paper), Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 1987.
Watkins, Floyd C. Then and Now: The Personal Past in the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren , Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1982.
Weeks, Dennis L. “To Love So Well the World” A Festschrift in Honor of Robert Penn Warren, New York: Peter Lang, 1992.
Young, Thomas D. & Elizabeth Sarcone ed. The Lytle-Tate Letters: The Correspondence of Andrew Lytle and Allen Tate, Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1987. [Inscribed to Andrew Lytle to Joseph Blotner]
Young, Thomas Daniel & M. Thomas Inge. Donald Davidson, New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1971.
Work on Warren and related topics in Periodicals
Brooks, Cleanth. “Robert Penn Warren and American Idealism,” Sewanee Review, 91, Fall 1989.
Davison, Peter, “The Black Aspen,” Sewanee Review, 99, Summer 1991. (Plus one letter and two poems laid in)
Ferris, William, “An Interview with Cleanth Brooks,” Southern Reader, I Summer, 1989.
Fridy, Will, “The Author and the Ballplayer: An Imprint of Memory in the Writings of Robert Penn Warren,” Mississippi Quarterly, 44 Spring 1991.
Hamblin, Robert W., “Robert Pen Warren at the 1965 Southern Literary Festival: A Personal Recollection,” Southern Literary Journal, 22, spring 1990.
Herndon, Jerry A., “The Probable Source for the Buffalo-Hunting Episodes in Robert Penn Warren’s Night Rider,” Rendezvous: Idaho State University Journal of Arts and Letters I, Spring. [Inscribed to Joseph Blotner]
Lytle, Andrew, “A Journey South,” Kentucky Review, 1 Spring 1980.
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McSween, Harold B., “Cleanth Brooks, LSU and the Southern Review,” 104, April-June 1996
Ransom, John Crowe, “The Rugged Way of Genius,” (Randall Jarrell), Southern review, 3 N.S., April 1967.
Rubin, Louis D., Jr., “R. P. W. 1905-1989,” Sewanee Review, 98 April-June, 1990.
“Robert Penn Warren: Selections from the Collection of Stuart Wright,” H.E. Turlington Books, Pittsboro, N.C., No. 38, n.d.
“Special Issue: The Great Dragon Country of Robert Penn Warren, “ guest ed. Eleanor H. Beiswenger et al. The Southern Quarterly, 31 Summer 1992.
Sullivan, Walter, “Robert Penn Warren 1905-1989,” Sewanee Review, 91 October-December 1989.
Thiemann, Fred R., “Politics and the Self in Robert Penn Warren’s Poetry,” South Atlantic Review, 61 fall 1996.
Wilcox, Earl J., “A Caust for Laughter, A Thing for Tears, Humor in All The King’s Men,” Southern Literary Journal, Fall 1979.
Plumly, Stanley, “Special Feature” on the work of RPW, Ohio Review Winter 1977.
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