Department of Library Special Collection
Kentucky Building
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Robert Penn Warren Library
Joseph Blotner Archives
Most of these manila folder files contain a wide variety of materials including my own interviews,
notes and outlines, newspaper and magazine clippings, minutes of meetings, short unpublished
essays, correspondence, Warren literary works plus introductory summary sheets and indexes.
Xeroxes includes pages from Robert Penn Warren and Albert Erskine archives, collections in the
Beinecke Library, (YUL); University of Kentucky, (UKy); Princeton University, (PUL); Library
of Congress, (LoC); University of Maryland, (UMd); Vanderbilt University (VU); University of
Virginia (UVa); and Random House, (RH) among others. The pages recorded in the totals are of
all kinds and sizes.
BOX 1
Folder1
Spiral notebook: Index locator file: people. places, & etc.. 80 p.
Folder 2
Legal pad: poem summaries & disk nos., 60 p.
Folders: Miscellaneous, Person, years, magazines, institutions
Folder 3
Miscellaneous, 40 p.
Folder 4
Notes on books read, 20 p.
Folder 5
Brief genealogy, 35 p.
Folder 6
Mary Mexico Penn genealogy & charts, 124 p.
Folder 7
The Penn family of Virginia, 69 p.
Folder 8
RPW medical history, 233 p.
Folder 9
Robert Franklin Warren (father), 30 p.
Folder 10
Ruth Penn Warren (mother), 4 p.
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Folder 11
Parents, siblings & other ancestors, 24 p.
Folder 12
Childhood, 53 p.
Folder 13
Guthrie, Ky., 31 p.
Folder 14
1917-1920, 12 p.
Folder 15
1920, 10 p.
Folder 16
Vanderbilt University, 164 p.
BOX 2
Folder 1
1921, 46 p.
Folder 2
1922, 11 p.
Folder 3
1923, 17 p.
Folder 4
1924, 76 p.
Folder 5
1925, 35 p.
Folder 6
U. of Cal., Berkley, 83 p.
Folder 7
1926, 43 p.
Folder 8
1927, 80 p.
Folder 9
1928, 40 p.
Folder 10
Rhodes Scholarship, 61 p.
Folder 11
1929, 73 p.
Folder 12a
1930, 49 p.
Folder 12b
RPW Thesis: “A Study of John Martson Satires” (1928)
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Folder 13
1931, 153 p.
Folder 14
1932, 20 p.
Folder 15
1933, 34 p.
BOX 3
Folder 1a
1934, 74 p.
Folder 1b
M. Thomas Inge on the Agrarians, 41 p.
Folder 2
The Southern Review, 20 p.
Folder 3
1935, 104 p.
Folder 4
1936, 42 p.
Folder 5
1937, 41 p.
Folder 6
1938, 56 p.
Folder 7
1939, 126 p.
Folder 8
1940, 98 p.
Folder 9
LSU houses, 19 p.
Folder 10
1941, 79 p.
Folder 11
1942, 149 p.
Folder 12
1943, 29 p.
Folder 13
1944, 97 p.
Folder 14
1945, 52 p.
Folder 15
1946, 83 p.
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Folder 1
1947, 70 p.
Folder 2
1948, 46 p.
Folder 3
1949, 43 p.
Folder 4
1950, 57 p.
Folder 5
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 115 p.
Folder 6
1951, 97 p.
Folder 7
1952, 45 p.
Folder 8
1953, 62 p.
Folder 9
1954, 41 p.
Folder 10
1955, 37 p.
Folder 11
1956, 48 p.
Folder 12
1957, 39 p.
Folder 13
1958, 38 p.
Folder 14
1959, 47 p.
Folder 15
1960, 54 p.
Folder 16
1961, 56 p.
Folder 17
1962, 57 p.
BOX 5
Folder 1
1963, 63 p.
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Folder 2
1964, 37 p.
Folder 3
1965, 138 p.
Folder 4
1966, 89 p.
Folder 5
1967, 69 p.
Folder 6
1968, 31 p.
Folder 7
1969, 53 p.
Folder 8
1970, 77 p.
Folder 9
1971, 36 p.
Folder 10
1972, 79 p.
Folder 11
1973, 125 p.
Folder 12
1974, 113 p.
BOX 6
Folder 1
1975, 138 p.
Folder 2
1976, 94 p.
Folder 3
1977, 107 p.
Folder 4
1978, 32 p.
Folder 5
1979, 49 p.
Folder 6
1980, 144 p.
Folder 7
1981, 69 p.
Folder 8
1982, 34 p.
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Folder 9
1983, 53 p.
Folder 10
1984, 49 p.
Folder 11
1985, 85 p.
Folder 12
1986, 63 p.
BOX 7
Folder 1
1987, 90 p.
Folder 2
1988, 21 p.
Folder 3
1989, 90 p.
Folders on IB ms. & RPW poems
Folder 4
Notes for revision of RPW: A Biog. To JB from Robert Loomis, Louis D. Rubin,
Jr., Cleanth Brooks, and Charles Fast, 42 p.
Folder 5
To be dated and located, 64 p.
Folder 6
Poems, general; list of contents of Stuart Wright projects edition of RPW
Complete Poems, 56 p.
Folder 7
Individual Poems, 77 p.
Folder 8
Biographical sketches of RPW, 28 p.
Folder 9
Shack One and Shack Two (Vermont), 19 p.
Folder 10
Individual stories, 42 p.
Folder 11
Driftwood Flames & early poems from various magazines, 66 p.
Folder 12
The Fugitive, 1922: Apr., June, Oct., Dec. , 126 p.
Folder 13
The Fugitive, 1923: June-July, Aug.-Sept., Oct., Dec., 191 p.
Folder 14
The Fugitive, 1924: Feb., Apr., June, Aug., Dec., 161 p.
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Folder 15
The Fugitive, 1925: March, June, Sept., Dec., 128 p.
Folder 16
The Fugitive & The Fugitives, 78 p.
Folders on individual works, containing many different kinds of materials
Folder 17
John Brown: The Making of a Martyr, 17 p.
Folder 18
I’ll Take My Stand, 23 p.
BOX 8
Folder 1
God’s Own Time (unpublished novel), includ. Correspondence, notes, typescript,
readers’ reports, UKy, xerox, 320 p.
Folder 2
Prime Leaf, 12 p.
Folder 3
Second unpublished novel, untitled, ts. UKy, xerox, 251 p.
Folder 4
36 poems, reviews, 2 p.
Folder 5
Understanding Poetry, 39 p.
Folder 6
Unpublished student essays on the Black Patch War, 72 p.
Folder 7
Night Rider, incl. Holograph & typed notes UKy, xerox, 43 p.
Folder 8
Proud Flesh, incl. Correspondence, notes, ts., YUL, PUL, xerox, 157 p.
Folder 9
11 Poems on the Same Theme, incl. Notes reviews, 2 p.
Folder 10
Understanding Fiction, 1p.
Folder 11
At Heaven’s Gate, incl. JB summary & notes, RPW & Andrew Lytle 6 interviews,
reviews 18 p.
Folder 12
Selected Poems: 1923-1943, 10 p.
Folder 13
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1 p.
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BOX 9
Folder 1
All the King’s Men, 208 p.
Folder 2
All the King’s Men (play) ts. YUL, xerox, 99 p.
Folder 3
The Circus in the Attic and Other Stories, 11 p.
Folder 4
Modern Rhetoric, 4 p.
Folder 5
All the King’s Men (film), 20 p.
Folder 6
World Enough and Time, incl. RH correspondence, 71 p.
Folder 7
The Wedding Ring ts. UKy, xerox, 107 p.
Folder 8
Brother to Dragons (1953), 46 p.
Folder 9
Willie Stark: His Rise and Fall fragment, UKy
Folder 10
Band of Angels fragment UKy
Folder 11
“Segregation” tearsheets, magazine version
Folder 12
Promises: Poems 1954-1956, 28 p.
Folder 13
“How Texas Won Her Freedom” magazine, xerox, 9 p.
Folder 14
Selected Essays, 4 p.
Folder 15
Remember the Alamo ts. RH, xerox, 13 p.
Folder 16
The Cave, 30 p.
Folder 17
The Gods of Mount Olympus, 81 p.
Folder 18
You, Emperors, and Others: Poems 1957-1960, 27 p.
Folder 19
The Legacy of the Civil War , 16 p.
Folder 20
Wilderness, 41 p.
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Folder 21
An Approach to Literature (rev. ed. ), 5 p.
Folder 22
The American Academy in Rome, 90 p.
Folder 23
Flood, 47 p.
BOX 10
Folder 1
Who Speaks for the Negro, 29 p.
Folder 2
So Clear, O Victory, fragment of unfinished novel UKy xerox, 63 p.
Folder 3
Selected Poems: New and Old: 1923-1966, 30 p.
Folder 4
Incarnations: Poems 1966-1968, 6 p.
Folder 5
Audubon: A Vision, 68 p.
Folder 6
Selected Poems of Herman Melville 6 p.
Folder 7
John Greenleaf Whittier’s Poetry, 2 p.
Folder 8
Homage to Theodore Dreiser, 8 p.
Folder 9
Meet Me in the Green Glen, 113 p.
Folder 10
American Literature: The Makers and the Making, 127 p.
Folder 11
Or Else –Poem/Poems: 1968-1974, 88 p.
Folder 12
Brother to Dragons, video, 22 p.
Folder 13
Democracy and Poetry, 1 p.
Folder 14
Selected Poems: 1923-1975, 49 p.
Folder 15
Willie Stark, opera, 50 p.
Folder 16
Ballad of a Sweet Dream of Peace, 32 p.
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Folder 17
A Place to Come To, 41 p.
Folder 18
Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978, 12 p.
Folder 19
Brother to Dragons: A new version, 11 p.
Folder 20
Robert Penn Warren Speaking, 3 p.
Folder 21
“[Nashville:] A Remembrance”, 45 p.
Folder 22
“Portrait of a Father”, 45 p.
Folder 23
Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back, 9 p.
Folder 24
Life Is a Fable (Being Here), ts, xerox VU, 88 p.
Folder 25
Being Here: Poetry 1977-1980, 39 p.
BOX 11
Folder 1
Rumor Verified: Poems 1979-1980, 7 p.
Folder 2
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, 62 p.
Folder 3
New and Selected Poems: 1923-1985I, 10 p.
Folder 4
Portrait of a Father (1988), 5 p.
Folder 5
Collected Essays, 3 p.
Folder 6
A Robert Penn Warren Reader, 1 p.
Unpublished interviews, done in the University of Kentucky
Robert Penn Warren Oral History project, unless otherwise noted.
Subject
Folder 7
RPW 01, 129 p.
Folder 8
RPW 02, 68 p.
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Folder 9
RPW 15, 115 p.
Folder 10
RPW 18, 44 p.
Folder 11
RPW 20, 15 p.
Folder 12
RPW unnumbered, 27 p.
Folder 13
RPW [34 p. int. by William Ferris]
Folder 14
Mary Warren Barber, 4 p.
Folder 15
Northrup Beach 14 p.
Folder 16
Saul Bellow, 11 p.
Folder 17
Eric Bentley, 16 p.
Folder 18
Harold Bloom, 17 p.
Folder 19
Cleanth Brooks [includes 30 p. int. by JB & 28 p. int. by William Ferris & 19 p.
copy & 19 p. duplicate copy], 23 p.
Folder 20
Emma Cinina Brescia Warren, [first wife of RPW], 95 p.
Folder 21
Prof. Huntington & Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, 23 p.
Folder 22
File of materials, chiefly xeroxes of letters, deposited by Elizabeth Brown in
University of Minnesota Library, 46 p.
Folder 23
Matthew Bruccoli, 12 p.
Folder 24
Ken Burns [13 p. int by JB]
BOX 12
Folder 1
Robert Brustein, 21 p.
Folder 2
RPW [12 p. int. by Alexander S. Crouch]
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Folder 3
Lambert Davis [41 p. int by JB, 5 p. xeroxed article and notes], 41 p.
Folder 4
Peter Davidson [6 p. xeroxed letters from Beinecke Library & 2 p. notes by JB],
51 p.
Folder 5
James Dickey, 21 p.
Folder 6
Richard Eberhart, 30 p.
Folder 7
John Egerton [3 p. int. by JB]
Folder 8
RPW [51 p. published int. by Ralph Ellison and others]
Folder 9
John Ervin, 15 p.
Folder 10
Charles H. Foster [int. by JB, corrected draft, miscellaneous letters], 22 p.
Folder 11
John Kenneth Galbraith [2 p. int. by JB]
Folder 12
Isabella Gardner, 16 p.
Folder 13
James A. Grimshaw, Jr. [reminiscence of RPW& xerox letters] 36 p.
Folder 14
Margaret Hemphill [6 p. letter to JB]
Folder 15
Robert B. Heilman [letter to JN], 35 p.
Folder 16
John Hollander, 3 p.
Folder 17
Kirby Thomas [17 p. int by JB] 17 p.
Folder 18
Lewis R.B.W. [19 p. in by JB, clipping], 20 p.
Folder 19
Frederick Manfred [25 p. int. by JB & 2 p. letter]
Folder 20
Samuel Holt Monk, 12 p.
Folder 21
David Milch [22 p. int. by JB & 2 p. letter to JB]
Folder 22
Mary O’ Connor [8 p. letter to JB], 8 p.
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Folder 23
Harriet Owsley [22 p. book ms & letter to JB]
Folder 24
John Palmer [2 p. letter to RPW and ECBW], 25 p.
Folder 25
Pier Maria Pasinetti [3 p. int by JB, letter to JB, 17 p. published int.]
Folder 26
Leo & Rosalind Pflaum, 26 p.
Folder 27
David Quammon [7 p. & 4 p. letters to JB], 11 p.
BOX 13
Folder 1
John Crowe Ransome [13 p. RPW ts of obituary for, 22 p. xerox of Cleanth
Brooks American Scholar memorial article]
Folder 2
Danforth Ross [16 p. letter of RPW reminiscences to JB]
Folder 3
Louis D. Rubin, Jr. [18 p. int. by JB], 1 p.
Folder 4
Arthur H. Scouten [24 p. RPW & Karl Shapiro letters from the Harry Ransom
Humanities Research Center]
Folder 5
Karl Shapiro, 16 p.
Folder 6
Lewis P. Simpson [49 ts. p. of published essays about RPW]
Folder 7
Calvin Skaggs [66 xerox p. of unpublished ints. with Katherine Anne Porter]
Folder 8
Francis Steegmuller, 25 p.
Folder 9
Arnold Stein [9 p. of RPW reminiscences to JB], 26 p.
Folder 10
John L. Stewart, 28 p.
Folder 11
Elizabeth B. Stommel [18 p. of letters & RPW reminiscences to JB]
Folder 12
Victor Strandberg, 20
Folder 13
William Styron [6 p. of JB notes] 23 p.
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Folder 14
Jane Sullivan [16 p. of reminiscences of RPW to JB]
Folder 15
Leonard Unger [4 p. letter of reminiscences], 15 p.
Folder 16
RPW22 Brenda Ueland, 22 p.
Folder 17
Marshall Walker [87 xerox p. of corr. With RPW]
Folder 18
RPW [20 p. int. by Gabriel Penn Warren & 3 p. of letters to JB]
Folder 19
Floyd Watkins [9 p. typescript, RPW recollections]
Folder 20
RPW [19 p. int. by Mary Louise Weaks, edited by RPW & 12 p. of letters]
Folder 21
Rene Wellek, 13 p.
Folder 22
Folder 23
Eudora Welty [11 p. int. by JB]
Vann Woodward [78 p. of clippings, int. and corr.]
Folder 24
Herbert Woodman [6 p. int. by JB]
Folder 25
Stephen Wright [35 p. int. by JB]
Folder 26
RPW [int, by Mary Wyville], 2 p.
BOX 14
Folders of miscellaneous materials
Folder 1
Rejected & used materials: letters, clippings, 45 p.
Folder 2
Print, xerox, & tww. Of critical & bibliographical essays
Folder 3
Critical & bibliographical essays
Folder 4
RPW essays & intros., introdications: print and xerox, 109 p.
Folder 5
Interview notes, later transcribed, miscellaneous notes, & Beinecke notes, 345 p.
Folder 6
Things to do, 15 p.
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Folder 7
People who will help, 18 p.
Folder 8
RPW materials at UKy, RPWOHP, 133 p.
Folder 9
Correspondence, RPW-JB-ECW, 77 p.
Folder 10
RPW indexes & bibliography, Comp. Dieesrtation Query Service, Dissertation
abstracts on line, Univ, Microfilms, 91 p.
BOX 15
Folder 1
RPW Circle Newsletter, 6 mos., 35 p.
Trip Files
These folders contain correspondence, schedules, maps, and lists of interviewees.
Folder 2
Baton Rouge, LSU, 8 p.
Folder 3
Charlottesville, UVa, 16 p.
Folder 4
District of Columbia, Library of Congress, 18 p.
Folder 5
Emory University [list of RPW holdings, Watkins notes], 24 p.
Folder 6
University of Minnesota [list of RPW holdings], 18 p.
Folder 7
Beinecke Library {RPW holdings], 38 p.
Folder 8
New York City, 10 p.
Folder 9
Princeton University [RPW control folders, photocopy, records], 65 p.
[2 rolls of positive microfilm of Allen Tate correspondence with John Peale Bishop
papers]
Folder 10
University of the South, Sewanee, 13 p.
Folder 11
Vanderbilt University & Nashville, 34 p.
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Folder 12
West Wardsboro, Vt. [Warren summer home], 9 p.
Folder 13
WKy & Gutherie [Center for RPW Studies, minutes and programs], 89 p.
RPW Research Costs
Folder 14
1987, 39 p.
Folder 15
1988, 101 p.
Folder 16
1989, 26 p.
Folder 17
1990, 40 p.
Folder 18
1991-1993, 35 p.
RPW Center Colloquia & Meetings
These folders contain notes, programs, reports, and correspondance.
Folder 19
First annual RPW Colloquium, 1998, 10 p.
Folder 20
Second annual RPW Colloquium, 1989, 9 p.
Folder 21
RPW Circle & Center Colloquium, 1992 - second joint annual meeting, 11 p.
Folder 22
RPW Circle & Center Colloquium, 1993 - third joint annual meeting, 33 p.
Folder 23
Annual Meeting, Center for RPW Studies, 1996, 6 p.
Folder 24
Annual Meeting, Center for RPW Studies, 1998, 2 p.
Folder 25
RPW Journal, 21 p.
BOXES 16-23
Drafts of Robert Penn Warren: A Biography
Typescript first draft (IBM & AppleMac) 73 chapters
Chpts.
1-12, 144 p.
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13-22, 160 p.
23-35, 244 p.
36-45 - chapter 40 missing, chapter 38 begins a new printer, 165 p.
46-54, 149 p.
55-64, 189 p.
65-73, 140 p.
Typescript first draft with holographic revisions, Chpts 1-73, Books 1-7, 1214 p.
Typescript second draft with holograph revisions, Chpts 1-54, Books 1-7, 1214 p.
Duplicate Book One, 144 p.
Revised second draft used by Random House editor Robert D. Loomis, 1214 p.
Duplicate chapters with comments, 88 p.
Folder 1 [pages with quotations marked for Random House Permissions, pages
cannibalized for Princeton University and other permissions], 200 p.
Folder 2, 200 p.
Typescript of final draft (Macintosh Iisi), 808
Setting copy, 808 p.
Page proof & ts. index [author’s galleys, 577 pp; ts. index, 84 p.]661 p.
Proof first pass, 661 p.
Proof second pass, 661 p.
BOX 24
Folder 1
Miscellaneous
Folder 2
Sam Pestridge
Folder 3
Photos and negatives
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Folder 4
Photocopies of photos
Folder 5
Photocopies of photos to be used
Stray photos
BOX 25
Other recordings
Presenting RPW: Poetvision, n.p., Rohm & Haas Co., 1988
3 video tapes: 20.22, 18.13, & 17.37 minutes; 42 p. booklet.
Recording. “Robert Penn Warren Reads Selected Poems. 1923-1978" n.p. Harper Collins, 1980.
Side1 26.25 minutes, side 2 26.18 minutes. Kept in the blue cabinet in RPW Library.
BOX 26
Disks and tapes
Floppy disks: transcribed interviews, ms., chpts., & backups
Verbatium Data Life 25 2D-MD 550-D1 floppy disks, 40
Sony High Density MFD-2HD disks, 33
BOX 27
Realistic MC90 Micro cassette tapes of interviews, 22
Radio Shack Micro cassette tapes of interviews, 8
Supertape MII-60 [Charles H. Foster], 4
Bibliography
This bibliography was compiled by Joseph Blotner. The materials listed may be in the RPW
Library’s holdings, but they were not purchased as part of the Blotner Archives.
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Published Works by RPW
“A Study of John Martson’s Satires,” Oxford University B.Litt. thesis, Bodleian Library, 1930,
Bodleian Shelfmark D216, 108 p. xerox of ts. & 3 p. of correspondence & analysis.
John Brown: The Making of a Martyr (1929), repr. Nashville: J.S. Saunders & Co. 1993, xvii &
474 p.
An Approach to Literature, Cleanth Brooks, John Thiubault Purser, and Robert Penn Warren,
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1975.
Night Rider, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1939.
Eleven Poems on the Same Theme (paper), Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1942.
[Inscribed to Joseph Blotner)
Understanding Fiction (paper), Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren, Englewood Cliffs, New
Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1979.
At Heavens Gate (paper), New York: New Directions, 1943.
All the King’s Men, New York: Grossett & Dunlap, 1946.
The Circus in the Attic and Other Stories (paper), San Diego, California: Harcourt Brace
Jovanich, 1947.
World Enough and Time, New York: Random House, 1950.
Band of Angels, New York: Random House, 1955.
Promises: Poems 1954-1956, New York: Random House, 1957.
Selected Essays, New York: Random House, 1958.
The Cave, New York: Random House, 1959.
All the King’s Men: A Play, New York: Random House, 1960.
You, Emperors, and Others: Poems 1957-1960, New York: Random House, 1960.
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The Legacy of the Civil War, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1983.
Wilderness: A Tale of the Civil War, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1961.
Flood: A Romance of Our Time, New York: Random House, 1964.
Who Speaks for the Negro?, New York: Random House, 1964.
Selected Poems: New and Old 1923-1966, New York: Random House, 1966.
Faulkner: A Collection of Critical Essays (ed. B=by RPW), Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey:
Prentice-Hall, 1966.
Incarnations: Poems 1966-1968, New York: Random House, 1968.
Homage to Theodore Dreiser, New York: Random House, 1971.
Meet Me in the Green Glen, New York: Random House, 1971.
American Literature: The Makers and the Making (paper), Cleanth Brooks, R.W.B. Lewis, &
Robert Penn Warren, New York: St. Martin’s Press, Vols I & II, 1973.
Or Else - Poem/Poems: 1968-1974, New York: Random House, 1974.
Selected Poems: 1923-1975, New York: Random House, 1976.
A Place to Come To, New York: Random House, 1977.
Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices, New York: Random House, 1979.
Being Here: Poetry 1977-1980, New York: Random House, 1980.
Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back, Lexington: University of Kentucky, 1980.
Rumor Verified: Poems 1979-1980, New York: Random House, 1981.
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, New York: Random House, 1985. [Inscribed to Joseph Blotner]
New and Selected Essays, New York: Random House, 1989.
Works by Eleanor Clark
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Rome and a Villa, New York: Pantheon Books, 1974.
The Oysters of Locmariaquer (paper), New York: Vintage Books, 1966. [Inscribed to Joseph
Blotner]
Camping Out, New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1986. [Inscribed to Joseph Blotner]
Tamarat: 13 Days in the Sahara, n.p.: Stuart Wright, Publisher, 1984.
Works about RPW, his work and its backgrounds
Sochatoff, A. Fred, ed.l. et al. All the King’s Men: A Symposium, Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania:
Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1957.
Bendient, Calvin. In the Heart’s Last Kingdom: Robert Penn Warren’s Major Poetry,:
Cambridge, California, Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1966.
Beebe, Maurice. All the King’s Men: A Critical Handbook, ed. et al., Belmont California,
Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1966.
Burt, John. Robert Penn Warren and American Idealism, New Haven: Yale University Press,
1988.
Clark, William Bedford. The American Vision of Robert Penn Warren, Lexington, Kentucky:
University Press of Kentucky, 1991.
Cutrer, Thomas W. Parnassus on the Mississippi: The Southern Review and the Baton Rouge
Literary Community, 1935-1942, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: LSU Press, 1985.
Walter, Edgar B. ed., A Southern Renaissance Man: Views of Robert Penn Warren, Baton
Rouge, Louisiana: LSU Press, 1984.
Grimshaw, James A., Jr. ed. Time’s Glory: Original Essays of Robert Penn Warren, n.p.:
University of Central Arkansas Press, 1986.
_____, Robert Penn Warren’s Brother to Dragons: A Discussion. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: LSU
Press, 1983.
Harvard, William C. & S. Walter, ed. A Band of Prophet: The Vanderbilt Agrarians After Fifty
Years, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: LSU Press, 1982.
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Heilman, Robert B. The Southern Connection: Essays by Robert Bechtold Heilman, Baton
Rouge, Louisiana: LSU Press, 1991.
Inge, Thomas M. Agrarianism in American Literature, New York: The Odyssey Press, 1969.
Jenkins, William Marshall, Jr. Of Words and Men: The Remembrances of Robert Penn Warren
[RPW monologue constructed from his works, unpublished]
Longley, John Lewis, Jr. ed. Robert Penn Warren: A Collection of Critical Essays, New York:
NYU Press, 1965.
McFerrin, John Berry. Caldwell and Company: A Southern Financial Empire, Nashville,
Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1969.
Millichap, Joseph R. Robert Penn Warren: A Study of the Short Fiction, New York: Tweyne
Publishers, 1992.
Nakadate, Neil, ed. Robert Penn Warren: Critical Perspectives, Lexington, Kentucky: University
Press of Kentucky, 1981.
Owsley, Harriet, Frank Lawrence Owsley. Historian of the Old South (paper), Nashville,
Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1990.
Runyon, Paul Randolph. The Braided Dream: Robert Penn Warren’s Late Poetry, Lexington,
Kentucky: University of Kentucky Press, 1990. [Inscribed to Joseph Blotner]
____. The Taciturn Text: The Fiction of Robert Penn Warren, Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State
University Press, 1990.
Rubin, Louis D., Jr. I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition (paper), Baton
Rouge, Louisiana: LSU Press, 1962.
____, and Robert Jacobs, ed. Southern Renascence: The Literature of the Modern South,
Baltimore, Maryland: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1953.
Ruppersburg, Hugh. Robert Penn Warren and the American Imagination, Athens, Georgia:
University of Georgia Press, 1990.
Simpson, Lewis P., et. al. ed. The Southern Review and Modern Literature: 1935-1985, Baton
Rouge, Louisiana: LSU Press, 1988.
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Blotner Archives
Robert Penn Warren Library, WKU
Strandberg, Victor. The Poetic Vision of Robert Penn Warren, Lexington, Kentucky: University
of Kentucky Press, 1977.
Sullivan, Walter. Allen Tate: A Recollection, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: LSU Press, 1988.
Waldron, Ann. Close Connections: Caroline Gordon and the Southern Renaissance (paper),
Knoxville, Tennessee: University of Tennessee Press, 1987.
Watkins, Floyd C. Then and Now: The Personal Past in the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren ,
Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 1982.
Weeks, Dennis L. “To Love So Well the World” A Festschrift in Honor of Robert Penn Warren,
New York: Peter Lang, 1992.
Young, Thomas D. & Elizabeth Sarcone ed. The Lytle-Tate Letters: The Correspondence of
Andrew Lytle and Allen Tate, Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1987.
[Inscribed to Andrew Lytle to Joseph Blotner]
Young, Thomas Daniel & M. Thomas Inge. Donald Davidson, New York: Twayne Publishers,
Inc., 1971.
Work on Warren and related topics in Periodicals
Brooks, Cleanth. “Robert Penn Warren and American Idealism,” Sewanee Review, 91, Fall 1989.
Davison, Peter, “The Black Aspen,” Sewanee Review, 99, Summer 1991. (Plus one letter and two
poems laid in)
Ferris, William, “An Interview with Cleanth Brooks,” Southern Reader, I Summer, 1989.
Fridy, Will, “The Author and the Ballplayer: An Imprint of Memory in the Writings of Robert
Penn Warren,” Mississippi Quarterly, 44 Spring 1991.
Hamblin, Robert W., “Robert Pen Warren at the 1965 Southern Literary Festival: A Personal
Recollection,” Southern Literary Journal, 22, spring 1990.
Herndon, Jerry A., “The Probable Source for the Buffalo-Hunting Episodes in Robert Penn
Warren’s Night Rider,” Rendezvous: Idaho State University Journal of Arts and Letters I,
Spring. [Inscribed to Joseph Blotner]
Lytle, Andrew, “A Journey South,” Kentucky Review, 1 Spring 1980.
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Blotner Archives
Robert Penn Warren Library, WKU
McSween, Harold B., “Cleanth Brooks, LSU and the Southern Review,” 104, April-June 1996
Ransom, John Crowe, “The Rugged Way of Genius,” (Randall Jarrell), Southern review, 3 N.S.,
April 1967.
Rubin, Louis D., Jr., “R. P. W. 1905-1989,” Sewanee Review, 98 April-June, 1990.
“Robert Penn Warren: Selections from the Collection of Stuart Wright,” H.E. Turlington Books,
Pittsboro, N.C., No. 38, n.d.
“Special Issue: The Great Dragon Country of Robert Penn Warren, “ guest ed. Eleanor H.
Beiswenger et al. The Southern Quarterly, 31 Summer 1992.
Sullivan, Walter, “Robert Penn Warren 1905-1989,” Sewanee Review, 91 October-December
1989.
Thiemann, Fred R., “Politics and the Self in Robert Penn Warren’s Poetry,” South Atlantic
Review, 61 fall 1996.
Wilcox, Earl J., “A Caust for Laughter, A Thing for Tears, Humor in All The King’s Men,”
Southern Literary Journal, Fall 1979.
Plumly, Stanley, “Special Feature” on the work of RPW, Ohio Review Winter 1977.
Ransom, John Crowe, “The Rugged Way of Genius,” (Randall Jarrell) Southern Review, 3, N.S.,
April 1967.
(Articles on Huey Long), Southern Review, 21, April 1985.
“Index to the Original Series Volumes I-VIII, 1935-1942,” Southern Review.
“Southern Letters & Modern Literature: A National Literary Conference,” (facsimile), Southern
Review, Autumn 1935.
“Special Section on Warren’s Poetry, “ Mississippi Quarterly, 37, Spring 1984.
Fridy, Will, “The Author and the Ballplayer: An Imprint of Memory in the Writings of Robert
Penn Warren,” Mississippi Quarterly, 44, Spring 1991.
“Special Issue, Robert Penn Warren,” Mississippi Quarterly, 48, Winter 1994-95
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Blotner Archives
Robert Penn Warren Library, WKU
“Robert Penn Warren/Cleanth Brooks: A double issue,” Kentucky Poetry Review, 2-3, 1964.
Lytle, Andrew, “A Journey South,” Kentucky Review,1 Spring, 1980.
“Robert Penn Warren 75th Birthday Symposium,” Kentucky Review, 2, 1981.
Thiemann, Fred R., “Politics and the Self in Robert Penn Warren’s Poetry,” South Atlantic
Review, 61, Fall 1996.
Wilcox, Earl J., “‘A Cause for Laugher, A Thing for Tears’ Humor in All the King ‘s Men”
Southern Literary Journal, 12 Fall 1979.
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