Robert Penn Warren (1905 -1989). Warren was a beloved was an American poet and novelist. Warren won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 for his best known work, the novel All the King's Men. He won Pulitzer Prizes in poetry in 1958 for Promises: Poems 1954-1956, and in 1979 for Now and Then. All the King's Men became a very successful film in 1949. In 1981, Warren was selected as a MacArthur Fellow and later was named as the first U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry on February 26, 1986. Warren was coauthor, with Cleanth Brooks, of Understanding Poetry, an influential literature textbook (which was followed by other similarly coauthored textbooks Understanding Fiction and Modern Rhetoric) written from what can be called a New Critic approach. This particular essay published in a small book form was written when Warren traveled back to Kentucky to celebrate Jefferson Davis being given his citizenship back 90 years after his death.This is a reflective essay on the tragic and complex career of Jefferson Davis. This essay received critical acclaim and provides insights into Jefferson Davis lacking in some of his biographies.The book was published by The University of Kentucky Press in 1980. It is in excellent condition with an intact dust wrapper and it is signed Robert Penn Warren.

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