Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert Penn WarrenSeries:Voices of the SouthPublish date:1996-10-01Pages:148
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807121238ISBN-10:807121231UPC:9780807121238Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCSKR5KW21
Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices
The significantly revised version of Brother to Dragons appeared in 1979, twenty-six years after the original. It is, Warren wrote, "in some important senses, a new work." Told in the distinct voices of characters long dead and now gathered at an unspecified place and time, the poem recalls events leading to and resulting from the 1811 murder of a young slave by Thomas Jefferson's nephew....
Series: Voices of the South
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807121238ISBN-10:807121231UPC:9780807121238Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCSKR5KW21
Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) was born in Guthrie, Kentucky, and attended Vanderbilt University, where he became a member of the Fugitive movement. An acclaimed novelist, poet, critic, and teacher, the author of dozens of books, he was a man of letters in the truest sense. He was the only writer ever to receive Pulitzer Prizes in both fiction and poetry, and in 1985 he was named the first U.S....
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