April 12, 2024
Franklin Library: Robert Penn Warren: Poems
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Franklin Library: Robert Penn Warren: Selected Poems: 1923-1985 Franklin Library FULL leather top-of-the-line edition of Robert Penn Warren's "Selected Poems: 1923-1975," Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon, one of the FIRST EDITION SOCIETY series, published in 1976, with a 'special message' from Robert Penn Warren and a "fascimile signature." Bound in a Most Handsome burnt umber Moroccan cowhide, "Selected Poems" has burnt orange moire silk endleaves, satin ribbon, hubbed spines, gorgeous vellum paper, 22 kt. gold gilding on all three edges---in FINE condition. This volume has fifty years of the PULITZER prize winning poet's Best Poems. Warren, who lived from 1925-1989, was born in Kentucky. He was educated at Vanderbilt and received an MA from University of California--Berkeley. Warren was a RHODES scholar at OXFORD University before teaching at LSU-Baton Rouge, Minnesota, Vanderbilt, and Yale. Warren founded, with critic Cleanth Brooks, the SOUTHERN REVIEW in 1935. He held the Chair of Poetry at the Library of Congress. Warren received the BOLLINGEN PRIZE---the highest American award given to a poet. Warren received honorary doctorates from twelve universities. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, "All the King's Men." He has written eleven volumes of poetry and eleven novels and several books of criticism and two textbooks
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