Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989) was an American poet, novelist, and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the influential literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel All the King's Men (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry.

Warren was born in Guthrie, Kentucky, which is very near the Tennessee-Kentucky border, to Robert Warren and Anna Penn. Warren's mother's family had roots in Virginia, having given their name to the community of Penn's Store in Patrick County, Virginia. Robert Penn Warren graduated from Clarksville High School in Clarksville, Tennessee, Vanderbilt University in 1925 and the University of California, Berkeley in 1926. Warren later attended Yale University and obtained his B. Litt. as a Rhodes Scholar from New College, Oxford, in England in 1930. He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study in Italy during the rule of Benito Mussolini. That same year he began his teaching career at Southwestern College (now Rhodes College) in Memphis, Tennessee.

Famous quotes by Robert Penn Warren:

"Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write"

"I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without."

"More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past"

"This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a function of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past, and future, events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this only affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal."

"Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure."

"I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan."

"The poet is in the end probably more afraid of the dogmatist who wants to extract the message from the poem and throw the poem away than he is of the sentimentalist who says, "Oh, just let me enjoy the poem.""

"A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released."

"The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life."

"For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography."

"How do poems grow? They grow out of your life."

"The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it."

"Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money."

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Taiwan mistakenly fires supersonic missile towards China

Edit The Times of India 01 Jul 2016

BEIJING. A Taiwanese warship on Friday "mistakenly" fired a supersonic "anti-ship missile" towards China as it celebrated 95th anniversary of the ruling Communist Party amid assertions by President Xi Jinping ruling out independence for Taiwan ... "The missile was launched by operational error ... "We firmly oppose the 'Taiwan independence' secessionist activities," Xi said at the ceremony ... Stay updated on the go with Times of India News App....

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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign stop, Tuesday, June 28, 2016, at Alumisource, a metals recycling facility in Monessen, Pa.

What Gives Mr. Trump The Right To Make Promises On Behalf Of The Future?

Edit WorldNews.com 01 Jul 2016

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingPerhaps a more fundamental question than to why politicians change their positions on certain issues is what gives a person the right to make binding decisions on behalf of the future ... Indeed, what would the United States be like if politicians never changed their views on slavery, civil rights or economic policies that included more people ... (Dallas Darling is the author of Politics 501....

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File - Scene from the Kara Tepe refugee camp during the UN Secretary-General's visit on the Greek island of Lesbos, where he met with refugees, as well as with local volunteers and authorities on 18 June, 2016.

How Australia turned its back on the world's refugee crisis

Edit CNN 01 Jul 2016

(CNN)As the world works to resolve a major international refugee crisis, Australia just wants them to go away. At the recent World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the international community to find new long-term solutions for refugees ... There are only a handful of signatories to the Refugee Convention in Southeast Asia, and Australia is one of them. Read More ... Refugees turned back at sea ... ....

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Former London mayor Boris Johnson waves after he announced that he will not run for leadership of Britain's ruling Conservative Party in London, Thursday, June 30, 2016.

Tories plunged into civil war as Boris Johnson pulls out of race to become PM

Edit Belfast Telegraph 01 Jul 2016

The Conservative party has collapsed into accusations of betrayal and treachery as the party's first leadership contest in a decade gets under way. Tensions are high after Boris Johnson sensationally dropped out of the race at the first hurdle following a shock intervention against his leadership bid from Cabinet minister Michael Gove. Share Go To ... "He's ripped the Tory party apart ... THERESA MAY ... She said. “My pitch is very simple....

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File - In this picture taken Friday, Feb. 26, 2016, a Syrian man rides a bicycle through a devastated part of the old city of Homs, Syria. Some 1,200 rebels and civilians, many of them wounded and starving from a yearlong siege, withdrew from the last remaining strongholds in the ancient heart of Homs in May 2014, surrendering to President Bashar Assad a bloodstained city once dubbed the “capital of the revolution.”

Inside Bashar al-Assad's Syrian jail, an Islamist prisoner talks of the regret for his killing

Edit The Independent 01 Jul 2016

Unlike his fellow prisoners, Hamoud Saleh Hamed does not wear leg shackles when he is pushed on a spanking new wheelchair into the Syrian prison governor’s guest room at the Mezze military jail. Impossible, since his trousered right stump and the missing lower half of his left leg mean that the 37-year old Saudi maths teacher from Mecca cannot escape by throwing himself from the second floor window ... ....

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How amazing was Pat Summitt?

Edit CNN 28 Jun 2016

(CNN)There was a time when you could not find a game of women's basketball on American television, even one being played for a championship. Pat Summitt helped to change that ... Pat Summitt helped to change that. Mike Downey ... Read More ... JUST WATCHED ... Austin Peay practiced law there and became governor, and Robert Penn Warren went to school there before authoring "All the King's Men," and a young Jimi Hendrix played guitar in a band there ... ....

Legos at the Palmdale city library

Edit The Examiner 19 Jun 2016

This week at at the Palmdale City Library, residents can find homeless assistance, families can participate in a Lego play night, a BMX exhibition, and a Super Smash Brothers WiiU tournament ... PATH is a family of agencies working together to end homelessness for individuals, families, and communities ... This month’s book is “All the King’s Men” by Robert Penn Warren, a tale of a Southern politician’s unscrupulous rise to power ... ....

Part Two: Pulitzer Prize-winning books on politics (SDHC - South Dakota Humanities Council)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Jun 2016

Mac Harris, former director of the South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum, will discuss Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men (1947 winner of Pulitzer Prize for the novel) on June 21 ... Orville Prescott, reviewing the novel for the New York Times when it came out in 1946, averred, 'Robert Penn Warren's 'All the King's Men' is magnificently vital ......

Meet All the King’s Men at the Palmdale City Library’s Classics Book Club (City of Palmdale, CA)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Jun 2016

Meet All the King's Men at the Palmdale City Library's Classics Book Club PALMDALE - The Palmdale City Library's Classics Book Club will discuss the book All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren at its next session on Monday, June 27 from 7 to 8 pm at the Library, located at 700 E ......

Prepared text of the 2016 Stanford Commencement address by Ken Burns (Stanford University)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Jun 2016

(Source. Stanford University). -President Hennessy, members of the Board of Trustees, distinguished faculty and staff, proud and relieved parents, calm and serene grandparents, distracted but secretly pleased siblings, ladies and gentlemen, graduating students of the Class of 2016, good morning ... One hundred and twenty-five years. Wow ... -Ken Burns ... -Ken Burns ... -Ken Burns ... The poet Robert Penn Warren once told me that 'careerism is death.'....

Participatory Theater (Southern Methodist University)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Jun 2016

Throughout its history, DTC has produced many new works, including The Texas Trilogy by Preston Jones in 1978, Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, adapted by Adrian Hall, in 1986, and recent premieres of Clarkston by Samuel D ... That Hee Haw Musical by Robert Horn, Brandy Clark, and Shane McAnally; FLY by Rajiv Joseph, Bill Sherman and Kirsten ......

"America Reads” Exhibition to Open June 16 (The Library of Congress)

Edit Public Technologies 26 May 2016

(Source. The Library of Congress). Press contact. Guy Lamolinara (202) 707-9217; Donna Urschel (202) 707-1639. Public contact. Center for the Book (202) 707-5221. May 26, 2016. 'America Reads' Exhibition to Open June 16 ... A Narrative of 1757' Robert A ... A Personal Statement' Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'Nature' Napoleon Hill, 'Think and Grow Rich' John Kennedy Toole, 'A Confederacy of Dunces' Robert Penn Warren, 'All the King's Men' Robert M ... D ... # # #....

In My Library: Charles Bock

Edit New York Post 07 May 2016

There may be no more memorable young mother in recent fiction than the heroine of Charles Bock’s “Alice & Oliver,” about a NYC couple, parents of an infant daughter, making their way through the maze of treatment and insurance after Alice finds she has cancer. Bock knows the territory, having lost his young wife, Diana, to leukemia soon after their daughter’s birth ... All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren ... You’re in it! ... ....

Full partner (The University of Iowa)

Edit Public Technologies 27 Apr 2016

(Source. The University of Iowa). Though Sandy Boyd's accomplishments have been many, his wife, Susan, made her own impact on the life and the history of the University of Iowa. Maybe more so, says Sandy. 'None of what I've done could have happened without Susan,' he says ... She studied writing under Robert Penn Warren and Saul Bellow at the University of Minnesota and under Wallace Stegner at Stanford University ... N ... He's very patient.'....

The Southern Review's Spring 2016 Issue Now Available (Louisiana State University)

Edit Public Technologies 22 Apr 2016

(Source. Louisiana State University). Poetry and fiction looks at cycles of life, from cradle to the grave. 04/22/2016 ... J. Collins ... The Southern Review is also available in select bookstores. From LSU, The Southern Review publishes distinct literary voices from around the world that both evoke the innovation of its founders, Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks, and respond to the diversity of its contemporary readership ... LSU Press ... or....