Robert Penn Warren After Audubon: The Work of Aging and the Quest for Transcendence in His Later Poetry Contributor(s): Millichap, Joseph R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807134562 ISBN-13: 9780807134566 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2009 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | American - General |
Dewey: 813.52 |
LCCN: 2009009893 |
Series: Southern Literary Studies (Hardcover) |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.7" W x 8.6" (0.90 lbs) 224 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Despite nearly universal critical acclaim for Robert Penn Warren's later poetry, much about this large body of work remains unexplored, especially the psychological sources of these poems' remarkable energy. In this groundbreaking work, Warren scholar Joseph R. Millichap takes advantage of current research on developmental psychology, gerontology, and end-of-life studies to offer provocative new readings of Warren's later poems, which he defines as those published after Audubon: A Vision (1969). In these often intricate poems, Millichap sees something like an autobiographical epic focused on the process of aging, the inevitability of death, and the possibility of transcendence. Thus Warren's later poetry reviews an individual life seen whole, contemplates mortality and dissolution, and aspires to the literary sublime. |