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BL
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957529
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b711899
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Millichap, Joseph R.
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| Title & Author
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Robert Penn Warren after Audubon : : the work of aging and the quest for transcendence in his later poetry /\ Joseph R. Millichap.
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| Publication Statement
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Baton Rouge :: Louisiana State University Press,, ©2009.
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| Series Statement
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Southern literary studies
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1 online resource (xiii, 202 pages)
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| ISBN
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0807134562
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: 0807136719
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: 9780807134566
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: 9780807136713
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9780807134566
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-193) and index.
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| Contents
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Preface; Prologue: Autobiography, Aging, and Warren's Poetry through Audubon; 1. Predication and Interjection: Or Else: Poem/Poems 1968-1974; 2: Lyric and Logic: Can I See Arcturus From Where I Stand? Poems 1975; 3. Nostalgia and Speculation: Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978; 4. Autobiography and Age-Work: Being Here: Poetry 1977-1980; 5: Mortality and Eternity: Rumor Verified: Poems 1979-1980; 6. Sublimity and Transcendence: Altitudes and Extensions: 1980-1984; Epilogue: Autobiography, Aging, and Warren's Poetry in a NewCentury; Notes to Text; Works Cited; Index.
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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 t.
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Warren, Robert Penn,1905-1989-- Poetic works.
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Warren, Robert Penn,1905-1989
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Aging in literature.
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Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature.
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Aging in literature.
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Criticism and interpretation.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature.
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813/.52
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PS3545.A748Z785 2009eb
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