Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren

by Warren, Robert Penn

ISBN13: 9780807126776

ISBN10: 0807126772

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 2001-04-01

Publisher(s): Louisiana State Univ Pr

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Summary

John Burt's Selected Poems of Robert Penn Warren is more broadly representative of Warren's poetry than any previous such gartering. More than two hundred poems from every phase grace the volume, a vehicle ideal for sampling or soaking in the finest of Warren's rich output.

With each poem. Burt has carefully located the version that constitutes Warren's final revision. His introduction gives an eloquent overview of the poet's career, touching on every published book of verse and highlighting significant lines. A "selected" collection in the truest sense, featuring several previously unpublished pieces, this treasure is at once new and familiar.

Burt showcases some very early verse, such as "The Bird and the Stone" and "Oxford City Wall", the only poem known to derive from Warren's days as a Rhodes scholar. There are also portions from the book-length poems, Brother to Dragons and Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce. Arranged chronologically, the selections run the course from darker, more self-consciously formal poems of the 1920s and early 1930s, including "Kent

Introduction

xiii

About the Texts

xxvii

Acknowledgments

xxix

Early Unpublished Poems

The Bird and Stone

(1)

The Concert

(1)

Conquest

(1)

Oxford City Wall

(1)

San Francisco Night Windows

(1)

Poems 1922-1943

The Fierce Horsemen

(1)

Wild Oats

(1)

Death Mask of a Young Man

The Mouse

(1)

The Moon

(1)

Portraits of Three Ladies

(1)

Alf Burt, Tenant Farmer

(1)

The Wrestling Match

(2)

from Thirty-Six Poems

The Return: An Elegy

(2)

Kentucky Mountain Farm

Rebuke of the Rocks

(1)

At the Hour of the Breaking of the Rocks

(1)

History Among the Rocks

(1)

Watershed

(1)

The Return

(1)

Pondy Woods

(2)

Eidolon

(1)

History

(2)

Letter from a Coward to a Hero

(2)

Late Subterfuge

(1)

Ransom

(1)

To a Friend Parting

(1)

So Frost Astounds

(1)

Cold Colloquy

(1)

The Garden

(1)

To a Face in a Crowd

(3)

from Eleven Poems on the Same Theme

Bearded Oaks

(1)

Picnic Remembered

(1)

Crime

(1)

Original Sin: A Short Story

(1)

End of Season

(1)

Revelation

(1)

Pursuit

(1)

Love's Parable

(2)

Terror

(3)

from Selected Poems 1923-1943

The Ballad of Billie Potts

(11)

Mexico is a Foreign Country: Four Studies in Naturalism

Butterflies Over the Map

(1)

The World Comes Galloping: A True Story

(1)

Small Soldiers with Drum in Large Landscape

(1)

The Mango on the Mango Tree

(3)

from Brother to Dragons

Jefferson's Opening Monologue

(3)

The annus mirabilis

(1)

The Murder of John

(3)

Jefferson on the Aftermath

(2)

John's Lament

(1)

The Recognition of Complicity

(1)

from Promises

To a Little Girl, One Year Old, in a Ruined Fortress

Sirocco

(1)

Gull's Cry

(1)

The Child Next Door

(1)

The Flower

(2)

Colder Fire

(2)

Promises

What Was the Promise That Smiled from the Maples at Evening?

(1)

Court-martial

(3)

School Lesson Based on Word of Tragic Death of Entire Gillum Family

(1)

Summer Storm (Circa 1916), and God's Grace

(2)

Founding Fathers, Nineteenth-Century Style, Southeast U. S. A.

(1)

Infant Boy at Midcentury

(1)

When the Century Dragged

(1)

Modification of Landscape

(1)

Brightness of Distance

(1)

Dragon Country: To Jacob Boehme

(2)

Ballad of a Sweet Dream of Peace

(1)

And Don't Forget Your Corset Cover, Either

(1)

Keepsakes

(1)

Go It, Granny---Go It, Hog!

(1)

Friends of the Family, or Bowling a Sticky Cricket

(1)

You Never Knew Her Either, Though You Thought You Did

(1)

I Guess You Ought to Know Who You Are

(1)

Rumor Unverified Stop Can You Confirm Stop

(1)

Lullaby: A Motion like Sleep

(3)

from You, Emperors, and Others

Two Pieces after Suetonius

Apology for Domitian

(1)

Tiberius on Capri

(1)

Mortmain

After Night Flight Son Reaches Bedside of Already Unconscious Father, Whose Right Hand Lifts in a Spasmodic Gesture, as Though Trying to Make Contact: 1955

(1)

A Dead Language: Circa 1885

(1)

Fox-fire: 1956

(1)

In the Turpitude of Time: n.d.

(1)

A Vision: Circa 1880

(1)

Some Quiet, Plain Poems

Ornithology in a World of Flux

(1)

Holly and Hickory

(1)

The Well House

(1)

In Moonlight, Somewhere, They Are Singing

(1)

Debate: Question, Quarry, Dream

(1)

Two Studies in Idealism: Short Survey of American, and Human, History

Bear Track Plantation: Shortly after Shiloh

(1)

Harvard'61: Battle Fatigue

100

(3)

from Tale of Time

Tale of Time

What Happened

103

(1)

The Mad Druggist

104

(1)

Answer Yes or No

105

(1)

The Interim

105

(4)

What Were You Thinking, Dear Mother?

109

(1)

Insomnia

109

(3)

Homage to Emerson, On Night Flight to New York

His Smile

112

(1)

The Wart

113

(1)

The Spider

113

(1)

One Drunk Allegory

114

(1)

Multiplication Table

115

(1)

Wind

115

(1)

Does the Wild Rose?

116

(1)

from Incarnations

Island of Summer

What Day Is

117

(1)

Where the Slow Fig's Purple Sloth

118

(1)

Natural History

118

(1)

Riddle in the Garden

119

(1)

Paul Valery Stood on the Cliff And Confronted the Furious Energies of Nature

120

(1)

Treasure Hunt

121

(1)

Myth on Mediterranean Beach: Aphrodite as Logos

121

(3)

The Ivy

124

(1)

Where Purples Now the Fig

124

(1)

The Red Mullet

124

(1)

A Place Where Nothing Is

125

(1)

Masts at Dawn

126

(1)

The Leaf

127

(3)

Audubon: A Vision

Was Not the Lost Dauphin

130

(1)

The Dream He Never Knew the End Of

131

(6)

We Are Only Ourselves

137

(1)

The Sign Whereby He Knew

137

(2)

The Sound of That Wind

139

(3)

Love and Knowledge

142

(1)

Tell Me a Story

142

(3)

from Or Else

The Nature of a Mirror

145

(1)

Natural History

145

(1)

Time as Hypnosis

146

(1)

Blow, West Wind

147

(1)

Interjection #1: Caveat

148

(1)

I Am Dreaming of a White Christmas: The Natural History of a Vision

149

(7)

Interjection #2: I Know a Place Where All is Real

156

(1)

Chain Saw at Dawn in Vermont In Time of Drouth

156

(2)

Small White House

158

(1)

Forever O'Clock

158

(2)

Rattlesnake Country

160

(4)

Homage to Theodore Dreiser: Psychological Profile

164

(1)

Flaubert In Egypt

165

(2)

Vision Under the October Mountain: A Love Poem

167

(1)

Stargazing

168

(1)

Little Boy and Lost Shoe

168

(1)

Composition in Gold and Red-Gold

169

(1)

There's a Grandfather's Clock in the Hall

170

(1)

Reading Late at Night, Thermometer Falling

171

(5)

Folly on Royal Street before the Raw Face of God

176

(2)

Sunset Walk in Thaw-Time in Vermont

178

(2)

Birth of Love

180

(1)

A Problem in Spatial Composition

181

(2)

from Can I See Arcturus From Where I Stand?

A Way to Love God

183

(1)

Evening Hawk

184

(1)

Answer to Prayer

185

(1)

Paradox

186

(1)

Midnight Outcry

186

(1)

Old Nigger on One-Mule Cart Encountered Late at Night When Driving Home From Party in the Back Country

187

(4)

from Now and Then

American Portrait: Old Style

191

(3)

Boy Wandering in Simms' Valley

194

(1)

Orphanage Boy

195

(1)

Red-Tail Hawk and Pyre of Youth

196

(4)

Youth Stares at Minoan Sunset

200

(1)

Ah, Anima!

200

(1)

Unless

201

(1)

Not Quite Like a Top

202

(1)

Waiting

203

(1)

The Mission

204

(1)

When the Tooth Cracks---Zing!

205

(1)

Love Recognized

206

(1)

How to Tell a Love Story

206

(1)

Little Black Heart of the Telephone

207

(1)

Last Laugh

208

(1)

Heat Lightning

209

(1)

Inevitable Frontier

210

(2)

Heart of the Backlog

212

(1)

Diver

213

(1)

Rather Like a Dream

214

(1)

Heart of Autumn

215

(2)

from Being Here

Speleology

217

(1)

When Life Begins

218

(1)

Grackles, Goodbye

219

(1)

Youthful Truth-Seeker, Half-Naked, at Night, Running down Beach South of San Francisco

220

(1)

Snowshoeing Back to Camp in Gloaming

221

(2)

Sila

223

(3)

Vision

226

(1)

Part of What Might Have Been a Short Story, Almost Forgotten

227

(2)

Cocktail Party

229

(1)

The Cross

230

(1)

Language Barrier

231

(1)

Antinomy: Time and What Happened

232

(1)

Auto-da-fe

233

(2)

Passers-By on Snowy Night

235

(2)

from Rumor Verified

Chthonian Revelation: A Myth

237

(1)

Looking Northward, Aegeanward: Nestlings on Seacliff

238

(1)

Going West

239

(2)

Rumor Verified

241

(1)

Mountain Mystery

241

(2)

Vermont Ballad: Change of Season

243

(1)

Dead Horse in Field

244

(1)

The Corner of the Eye

245

(1)

What Voice at Moth-Hour

246

(1)

Another Dimension

246

(1)

English Cocker: Old and Blind

247

(1)

Have You Ever Eaten Stars?

248

(1)

Afterward

249

(1)

Fear and Trembling

250

(1)

from Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce

Little Bear Paws and Joseph's Surrender

251

(5)

Joseph at Grant's Funeral

256

(3)

from Altitudes and Extensions

Three Darknesses

259

(2)

Mortal Limit

261

(1)

Immortality Over the Dakotas

261

(1)

Arizona Midnight

262

(1)

Hope

262

(1)

New Dawn

Explosion: Sequence and Simultaneity

263

(1)

Goodbye to Tinian

263

(1)

Take-off: Tinian Island

264

(1)

Mystic Name

265

(1)

When?

266

(1)

Iwo Jima

267

(1)

Self and Non-Self

267

(1)

Dawn

268

(1)

The Approach

268

(1)

What That Is

268

(1)

Like Lead

269

(1)

Manic Atmosphere

269

(1)

Triumphal Beauty

269

(1)

Home

270

(1)

Sleep

270

(1)

True Love

270

(1)

Last Walk of Season

271

(1)

Last Meeting

272

(1)

Muted Music

273

(1)

Why Boy Came to Lonely Place

274

(1)

Youthful Picnic Long Ago: Sad Ballad on Box

275

(1)

Last Night Train

276

(1)

Question at Cliff-Thrust

277

(2)

Index of Titles and First Lines

279