Robert Penn Warren Books In Order
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Night Rider | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
At Heaven's Gate | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
World Enough and Time | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Band of Angels | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cave | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All the King's Men | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Flood | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Meet Me In The Green Glen | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Place to Come To | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Robert Penn Warren Chapbooks
Blackberry Winter | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Don\'t Bury Me At All | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gods of Mount Olympus. | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Use of the Past | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Old flame | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ballad of a Sweet Dream of Peace | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mountain Mystery | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Robert Penn Warren Collections
Selected Poems 1923-1943 | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eleven Poems on the Same Theme | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Circus in the Attic | (1947) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Brother to Dragons | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Promises: Poems 1954-1956 | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
You, Emperors, And Others | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected Poems: New and Old, 1923-1966 | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Incarnations | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Audubon | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Or Else | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New and Selected Poems, 1923-1985 | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Being Here: Poetry 1977-1980 | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Rumor Verified | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Love: Four Versions | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Have You Ever Eaten Stars? Poems 1979-1980 | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Now and Then: Poems, 1976-1978 | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Robert Penn Warren Letters Books
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, Volume 2 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, Volume Three | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, Volume Four | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren, Volume Five | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Robert Penn Warren Non-Fiction Books
The Essential Melville | (1857) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
John Brown | (1929) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Understanding Poetry | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Melville the poet | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
William Faulkner And His South | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Segregation | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected Essays | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Legacy of the Civil War | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wilderness | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Who Speaks for the Negro? | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Faulkner | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Why do we read fiction? | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Homage to Theodore Dreiser | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Democracy and Poetry | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A conversation with Robert Penn Warren | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Time to Hear and Answer | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Modern Rhetoric | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Katherine Anne Porter | (1979) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Robert Penn Warren Talking | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition | (1983) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Portrait of a Father | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
New and Selected Essays | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Talking with Robert Penn Warren | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren: A Literary Correspondence | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
How Texas Won Her Freedom: The Story Of Sam Houston And The Battle Of San Jacinto | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of U.S. Landmark Non-Fiction Books
The Voyages of Christopher Columbus | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Landing of the Pilgrims | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Our Independence and the Constitution | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Paul Revere and the Minute Men | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pirate Lafitte and the Battle of New Orleans | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Trappers and Traders of the Far West | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Louisiana Purchase | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
John Paul Jones: The Pirate Patriot | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Clara Barton | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Davy Crockett | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Story of D-Day | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Abe Lincoln: Log Cabin to White House | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wyatt Earp: U.S. Marshal | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Evangeline and The Acadians | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Remember the Alamo! | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Andrew Carnegie and the Age of Steel | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The American Revolution | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Battle for the Atlantic | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Golden Age of Railroads | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa: The War in the Pacific: 1941-1945 | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
William Penn: Quaker Hero | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mr. Bell Invents the Telephone | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
From Casablanca To Berlin- The War in North Africa and Europe: 1942-1945 | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Battle for Iwo Jima | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
George Washington: Frontier Colonel | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Swamp Fox of the Revolution | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Best American Short Stories Books
The Best Short Stories of 1915 | (1916) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1916 | (1916) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1917 | (1917) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1918 | (1918) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1919 | (1919) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1921 | (1921) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1922 | (1922) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1923 | (1923) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1924 | (1924) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1925 | (1925) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1926 | (1926) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1927 | (1927) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1928 | (1928) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1929 | (1929) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1930 | (1930) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1931 | (1931) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1932 | (1932) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1933 | (1933) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1934 | (1934) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1935 | (1935) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1936 | (1936) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1937 | (1937) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1938 | (1938) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1939 | (1939) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1940 | (1940) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories 1941 | (1941) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1942 | (1942) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1943 | (1943) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1944 | (1944) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1945 | (1945) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1946 | (1946) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1948 | (1948) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1949 | (1949) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1950 | (1950) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1951 | (1951) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1952 | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1953 | (1953) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1955 | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1957 | (1957) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1958 | (1958) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1959 | (1959) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1960 | (1960) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1961 | (1961) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1962 | (1962) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1963 | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1965 | (1965) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1966 | (1966) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1967 | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1968 | (1967) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories of 1969 | (1969) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1970 | (1970) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1971 | (1971) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1972 | (1972) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1973 | (1973) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1974 | (1974) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best of Best American Short Stories 1915-1950 | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1975 | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1976 | (1976) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1977 | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1978 | (1978) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1981 | (1981) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1984 | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1985 | (1985) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1987 | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2001 | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2002 | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories1921 | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 2015 | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
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Publication Order of Anthologies
Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century | (1954) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories 1964 | (1964) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stories of the Modern South | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume 2 | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Short Stories of the Century | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, literary critic, and writer. He attended from Clarksville High school in Tennessee, Vanderbilt University, and the University of California, Berkeley in 1926.
Later he joined Yale University and got a bachelor’s in Litt as a Rhodes Scholar. In 1930, he started teaching at Southwestern College. Warren also taught at Vanderbilt University and LSU. He was the sole winner of Pulitzer prizes for both poetry and fiction.
The author was awarded the Pulitzer in 1947 for All the King’s Men and later won his subsequent Pulitzer awards for poetry in 1957 and 1979. Robert Warren died on Sep 15, 1989, of bone cancer.
All the King’s Men
Jack Burden is a news reporter who finds himself following the hardworking and ambitious but naïve candidate known as Willie Stark. He’s a man picked to split the votes in the primary and ensure the nominations of the crony and corrupt politician that Louisiana is famous for.
Stark is the only person with no idea that the fix is on as he sumps and receives demotivating indifference from his crowds while trying to tell them the truth.
He soon finds himself on the ropes more than he is in the ring and begins to understand that for him to succeed, he’ll have to give the crowd whatever they want.
At first glance, Willie Stark appears like he would have been the perfect party candidate. However, he uses rhetoric to stir crowds by claiming that he’s just like them and that he will bust the heads of the evil politicians and the state house forcing them to do things the right way.
On the other hand, Willie knows something about the government and uses his skills to improve the lives of the impoverished by taxing the rich heavily and using the money to construct roads and offer free health care.
He uses exaggeration, and Burden observes a candidate’s merging and an honest man’s corruption. Burden soon becomes unemployed, but Stark always liked him and gave him a high position on his staff.
Though Stark is soundly defeated, he uses the remaining period before elections to become an excellent orator and electable candidate. As Burden becomes more trapped in the shady activities of Governor Stark’s administration, he begins to stumble over his high ideas of the importance of telling the truth. He tries to convince himself that he only does what his boss wants and tells him to do.
Whatever the boss does with the information he brings to the table has nothing to do with him, but the longer he gets involved and the more people he meets who later become victims of Stark’s ambition, the less he can claim.
Burden has feelings for his childhood friend, Anne Stanton, who is the daughter of the former governor. They briefly become an item, and then they go separate ways. Burden ends up marrying Lois, a woman who is so attractive. Despite the positive attributes, the two have different ambitions and goals, and the biggest problem is that Jack is in love with Anne.
Jack becomes close friends with Anne again, and he can’t help but make allusions to his marriage proposal still applicable. Even though Anne is thirty-five and has never been married, she keeps going around the issue. However, Burden no longer sees her as a friend anymore.
Stark still sees him as among the good guys despite the number of men he has felt after being destroyed. He concluded that it would have been better to destroy rather than bribe them.
If he bribes them again, he will still have to keep the untrustworthy associates in his organization. If he destroys them, they will no longer prevent him from accomplishing his ambitious aims. He’s on a self-made mission to use the corrupt system but only for the good part.
Despite his reputation, everything isn’t really about politics at all; it’s about a man looking after himself by sieving back through the history of his own family. In the process, he discovers some skeletons from the past yet still haunting the present.
All the King’s Men is more than a bit skeptical of the realities of American politics. Jack tells the story of Willie Stark, providing the novel’s moral center. He relates the present and the past not only for Willie but for himself.
Jack came from a privileged background but later turned his back on that life by becoming a cynical political newspaper reporter in a corrupt state. He’s a friend to Adam and Anne Stanton, the children of the preceding governor.
Judge Irwin is his mentor who influenced him since his youth, and his father, Ellis Burden, is a good friend of the judge.
Jack has a future and has been working on his doctorate while studying papers of an ancestor names Cass Mastern. The papers serve as a mirror of Jack’s life. However, Mastern betrayed a friend by having an affair with his friend’s wife and lives the rest of his life haunted by the betrayal.
The novel shows how people’s actions have consequences, and everyone owes a responsibility for the consequences of their actions. The book tells the story of Stark through the eyes of Jack Burden.
A Place to Come To
The novel tells the story of Jed Tewksbury, an alienated man who’s not common in the present. He’s told in a poetic and his scholarly achievements. He gets a scholarship at jerkwater college, enters graduate school in the university of Chicago, and passes in classical and medieval literature.
Jed Tewsbury narrates a story of his life from his humble beginnings in Rural Alabama. He later joins college and becomes an expert and later joins the army. He enters his first marriage to Agnes Andresen, an intelligent scholar. Even though Jed feels lonely and distant while with Agnes, he becomes restless and loses focus when she dies of cancer.
Rozelle Harcastle is Jed’s high school sweetheart whom he walks out on a high school prom. He meets her later in life in Nashville, and they get involved in a passionate affair, and Jed realizes that his love for her is still alive but too bad for him since she doesn’t feel the same.
He goes to Paris and later to Chicago, where he marries again, gets a son, and later gets divorced.
The novel is a story in which characters learn lessons the hard way, especially Jed, who realizes that every man has to live his own life and has fewer chances of knowing what it means. After becoming a classical and medieval literary scholar and getting married twice, having a son, and having an affair, Jed Tewksbury returns to his hometown to pay a visit to his mother’s grave and make peace with himself and his past.
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