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Monster Essays - Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren, born in Guthrie, Kentucky in 1905, was one of the
twentieth century's most eminent American writers. He was a distinguished
novelist and poet, literary critic, essayist, short story writer, and
coeditor of numerous textbooks. He also a founding editor of The Southern
Review, a journal of literary criticism and political thought.
The primary influences on Robert Warren's career as a poet were probably
his Kentucky boyhood, and his relationships with his father and his
maternal grandfather. As a boy, Warren spent many hours on his
grandfather's farm, absorbing stories of the Civil War....
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