Author:
Millichap, Joseph R. author.
Edition Statement:First edition.
ImprintKnoxville : The University of Tennessee Press, [2021]
Descriptionxii, 176 pages ; 24 cm
Note:Preface -- Prologue: Robert Penn Warren and shadowy autobiography -- "He was almost too powerful": Warren and William Faulkner -- "He was much like a father to me": Warren and John Crowe Ransom -- "My experience with the poetry": Warren and Herman Melville -- "Poetry as experience": Warren and John Greenleaf Whittier -- "Shadow-selves": Warren and Theodore Dreiser -- "Shadowy territory": Warren and Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Epilogue: Robert Penn Warren and other makers of American literature.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-166) and index.
Note:"Drawing principally on the work of critic James Olney, Joseph R. Millichap shows how Robert Penn Warren's critical engagement with major American authors- Faulkner, Ransom, Melville, Whittier, Dreiser, and Hawthorne- generated both insightful criticism as well as a working out of Warren's own autobiography under the shadowy influence of these leading writers. While Warren himself occasionally acknowledged the autobiographical nature of creative work- especially in his poetry- Millichap discovers similar dynamics at work when Warren takes up influential writers in his criticism."-- Provided by publisher.
Note:Recommended in Resources for College Libraries.
