• For Your Consideration:
• A (RARE) First Edition HARDCOVER of:
• “SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT PENN WARREN:
VOLUME TWO: THE SOUTHERN REVIEW Years: 1935-1942”
(Louisiana State University Press, 2001) (Hardcover, First Edition, First Printing)
• BY ROBERT PENN WARREN
• EDITED & INTRODUCED BY: WILLIAM BEDFORD CLARK
• “Continuing where Volume One of the SELECTED LETTERS left off, the missives from his Baton Rouge years show WARREN exploring and testing the boundaries of his genius on a number of simultaneous fronts. Editing THE SOUTHERN REVIEW with [CLEANTH] BROOKS was the center of his working life, and it offered him an almost immediate springboard to prominence on both sides of the Atlantic…. What any number of commentators have called WARREN’s ‘protean’ energy is in full evidence in these letters. The range and sheer diversity of his correspondence reveal an extraordinarily keen mind and heightened imagination operating in concert with optimum efficiency. Scrupulously edited and thoroughly annotated by WILLIAM BEDFORD CLARK with an eye toward the needs of the lay reader as well as the specialist, WARREN’s letters have the immediacy of skillful autobiography.”
—THE PUBLISHER
• “Here is a tidbit of news. Sunday afternoon [LSU’s] PRESIDENT SMITH took me for an automobile ride and asked if a literary quarterly could be edited here if he could get the jack in large quantities. I was not coy. The magazine will be called the SOUTHERN REVIEW.”
—ROBERT PENN WARREN to ALLEN TATE (MARCH 20, 1935)
• “Cross your fingers and pray that Louisiana doesn’t go broke!”
—WARREN to FRANK OWSLEY (MARCH 21, 1935)
• ABOUT VOLUME ONE: • “ROBERT PENN WARREN is the most variously accomplished writer in our literary history, and here, in the first volume of his letters, is a rich presentation of one aspect of that achievement. They have been adroitly annotated by WILLIAM BEDFORD CLARK, who stresses from the outset that these letters, while gems of communication and description, are moments in the process of self-forging, at times self-healing. It is a profoundly WARRENesque insight. So here is young WARREN on the move and in the making, with his prehensile imagination and his vigor of southern expressiveness.”
—R. W. B. LEWIS
• “WILLIAM BEDFORD CLARK’s first volume of ROBERT PENN WARREN’s letters provides invaluable insights into his personal, aesthetic) and professional development on his way to becoming America’s greatest twentieth-century man of letters. Superbly edited, with careful notes on poems, people, and places where he moved toward artistic fulfillment, this material reveals the stuff of life as WARREN lived it and prepared to achieve full possession of his mature powers.”
—JOSEPH BLOTNER
• “Ably edited by CLARK, the first volume of ROBERT PENN WARREN’s correspondence provides the fascinating self-portrayal of a highly gifted young writer of the American South seeking to discover the nature of his vocation to literature in the moment of civilizational crisis between the two world wars of the twentieth century and at the same time affords intriguing insights into the makers and the making of American literature during the 1920s and ‘30s.”
—LEWIS P. SIMPSON
• “I don’t know of any trove of WARREN letters of this period that CLARK has not made himself master of. I’m impressed by the breadth of his inclusions. And I’m impressed also by the detail of his commentary. I can only imagine the kind of legwork he had to do.”
—JOHN BURT, EDITOR, THE COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT PENN WARREN
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR: “ROBERT PENN WARREN (1905-1989) was born in Guthrie, Kentucky, and attended Vanderbilt University, where he became a member of the Fugitive movement. An acclaimed novelist, poet, critic, and teacher, the author of dozens of books, he was a man of letters in the truest sense. He was the only writer ever to receive PULITZER PRIZEs in both fiction and poetry.”
—THE PUBLISHER
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• For other details about this book, please see below.
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TITLE: “SELECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT PENN WARREN”
SUBTITLE: “VOLUME TWO: The Southern Review Years: 1935-1942”
AUTHOR: ROBERT PENN WARREN
EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY: WILLIAM BEDFORD CLARK
TYPE: HARDCOVER
PAGES: 433
PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Louisiana State University Press (Baton Rouge), 2001
EDITION: First Edition, First Printing*
*RE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First Printing” & this Number Row: “5 4 3 2 1.”
NOTE: This book is NOT an ex-library copy or a Book of the Month Club edition.
ISBN: 0-8071-2657-8
CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS.
Price ($39.95) is unclipped. Corners & spine tips are lightly bumped. Edges are lightly worn. Minor scratching & smudging (from normal handling) on sides. Back is about one-third discolored/sunned but DJ is still pointedly bright & clean. (Now protected in a Brodart archival cover.) •
CONDITION of BOOK ITSELF: VERY GOOD PLUS.
Book is square. Boards are clean with a few light scuffs. Corners & spine tips are bumped. Spine is tight with vivid lettering. Textblock edges are lightly scuffed. Endpapers are fine. Pages are bright & clean with no writing or underlining or doodling, no tears or holes, no stains or foxing, no foul odors, etc. CLEARLY UNREAD.
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