Product Description: In the last decade of his life, Robert Penn Warren remained a vibrant force in American literature, producing new works of poetry and nonfiction while also dealing courageously with the gradual decline of his health and the diminishment of his poetic powers...read more

Product Description: Continuing where Volume One of the Selected Letters left off, the missives from Warren's Baton Rouge years show the young author exploring and testing the boundaries of his genius on a number of simultaneous fronts. Editing the Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks (a colleague on the English faculty at Louisiana State University) was the centre of his working life and it offered an almost immediate springboard to prominence on both sides of the Atlantic...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This volume of personal correspondence takes Warren from the awkwardness of an emerging genius during his fugitive student years at Vanderbilt to the brink of producing great work in a newly appointed post at Louisiana State University. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In 1976―the bicentennial year―Robert Penn Warren told Bill Moyers that he was "in love with America" but his love for the nation was more often than not troubled and angry. Warren once remarked that "any intelligent person is inclined to criticize his country more strongly than he will criticize anything else...read more

Essays discuss Porter's early life in Texas, her major writings, and influences on her work