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"Drawing principally on the work of critic James Olney, Joseph R. Millichap shows how Robert Penn Warren's critical engagement with major American authors-Faulkner, Ransom, Melville, Whittier, Dreiser, and Hawthorne-generated both insightful criticism as well as a working out of Warren's own autobiography under the shadowy influence of these leading writers. While Warren himself occasionally acknowledged the autobiographical nature of creative work-especially in his poetry-Millichap discovers similar dynamics at work when Warren takes up influential writers in his criticism"--
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JOSEPH R. MILLICHAP is emeritus professor of English at Western Kentucky University. His books include
Robert Penn Warren after Audubon: The Work of Aging and the Quest for Transcendence in His Later Poetry and The
Language of Vision: Photography and Southern Literature in the 1930s and After.
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Reveals the interrelated literary genres of autobiography, criticism, and poetry as psychological modes encompassing the interplay of Robert Penn Warren’s life and work in his later nonfiction. Joseph Millichap also shows how Warren’s engagement with major American authors often centred on the ways their creative work intersected with their lives.
