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Robert Penn Warren, Shadowy Autobiography, and Other Makers of American Literature (Hardcover)
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Robert Penn Warren, Shadowy Autobiography, and Other Makers of American Literature (Hardcover)
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Toward the end of his career, Robert Penn Warren wrote, "It may be
said that our lives are our own supreme fiction." Although lauded
for his writing in multiple genres, Warren never wrote an
autobiography. Instead, he created his own "shadowy autobiography"
in his poetry and prose, as well as his fiction and nonfiction. As
one of the most thoughtful scholars on Robert Penn Warren and the
literature of the South, Joseph Millichap builds on the accepted
idea that Warren's poetry and fiction became more autobiographical
in his later years by demonstrating that that same progression is
replicated in Warren's literary criticism. This meticulously
researched study reexamines in particular Warren's later nonfiction
in which autobiographical concerns come into play-that is, in those
fraught with psychological crisis such as Democracy and Poetry.
Millichap reveals the interrelated literary genres of
autobiography, criticism, and poetry as psychological modes
encompassing the interplay of Warren's life and work in his later
nonfiction. He also shows how Warren's critical engagement with
major American authors often centered on the ways their creative
work intersected with their lives, thus generating both
autobiographical criticism and the working out of Warren's own
autobiography under these influences. Millichap's latest book
focuses on Warren's critical responses to William Faulkner, John
Crowe Ransom, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Greenleaf
Whittier, and Theodore Dreiser. In addition, the author carefully
considers the black and female writers Warren assessed more briefly
in American Literature: The Makers and the Making. Robert Penn
Warren, Shadowy Autobiography, and Other Makers of American
Literature presents the breadth of Millichap's scholarship, the
depth of his insight, and the maturity of his judgment, by giving
us to understand that in his writing, Robert Penn Warren came to
know his own vocation as a poet and critic-and as an American.
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