{"product_id":"9780807139745","title":"Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: Backward Glances and New Visions, 1969--1979","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe years 1969 and 1979 bookend a volatile decade in American history. As an articulate witness to the era of the Vietnam War, Watergate, Jimmy Carter, and the national \"malaise,\" Robert Penn Warren produced a phenomenal body of work, securing his place in the canon of American poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume five of Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: Backward Glances and New Visions, 1969--1979 includes Warren's letters to friends, family, peers, editors, inquiring scholars, and critics -- recording the details of his personal and professional life and illustrating his pivotal role in twentieth-century American literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these turbulent but fruitful years, Warren produced both Audubon: A Vision (1969) and the revised version of Brother to Dragons (1979). In between lay some of Warren's most searching work as poet, novelist, literary critic, and social commentator.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring this era Warren's achievements included his highly experimental and complex Or Else -- Poem\/Poems (1974) and the Pulitzer Prize--winning Now and Then (1978). Before the end of the 1970s three more novels appeared concluding with his final book of fiction, A Place to Come To.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume provides insight into Warren's inspiration during a remarkably productive era and will prove an essential resource on his life and work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Louisiana State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068250669296,"sku":"9780807139745","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780807139745_p0.jpg?v=1763743245","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780807139745","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}