Robert Penn Warren: Distinguished American Writer and Poet
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 was 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 and the local
tobacco wars between growers and wholesalers, the subject of his first
novel, Night Riders. His grandfather, Thomas Gabriel Penn, had been a
calvary officer in the Civil War and was well-read in both military history
and poetry, which he sometimes recited for Robert.
Robert's father was a banker who had once had aspirations to become a
lawyer and a poet. Because of economic troubles, and his responsibility
for a family of half-brothers and sisters when his father died, Robert
Franklin Warren forsook his literary ambitions and devoted himself to more
lucrative businesses. Robert Warren did not always have ambitions to become
a writer, in fact, one of his earlier dreams was to become an adventurer on
the high seas. This fantasy might have indeed come about, for his father
intended to get him an appointment to Annapolis, had it not been for a
childhood accident in which he lost sight in one of his eyes.
Warren was an outstanding student but there were also many books at home,
and he savored reading. His father at one time aspired to be a poet. His
grandfather Penn, with whom he spent much time when he was young, was an
exceptional storyteller and greatly influenced young Red. But both of these
men whom he loved had in some sense failed to achieve. By contrast, Warren
was determined to achieve, to be successful.
During his college years at Vanderbilt, the sense of being physically
maimed, as well as the fear sympathetic blindness in his remaining good eye
became almost unbearable.
At Vanderbilt University he met Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Donald
Davidson, and others interested in poetry. As part of The Fugitives, a
private group that met off campus, he delved deeply into poetry, and his
first poems were published in their short-lived quarterly. Warren had a
remarkable capacity for friendship, and he was in touch with these men all
of their lives. For years Tate was "first critic" of his poetry.
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