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NOVELISTS > novelist, poet, critic, teacher > Robert Penn Warren
What is a...
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What is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding? It is the deepest part of autobiography.
Source: Poetry Is a Kind of Unconscious Autobiography in NY Times, 12 May 1985.
-- Robert Penn Warren, (Apr 24 1905-1989), US novelist, poet, critic, teacher; He was best-known for his treatment of moral dilemmas in a South beset by the erosion of traditional, rural values; first U.S. poet laureate, 1986.