Brother to dragons,: A tale in verse and voices

by Robert Penn Warren

Book Overview

"This is Robert Penn Warren's best book. . . . Cruel sometimes, crude sometimes, obsessed sometimes, the book is always extraordinary: it does know, and knows sadly and tenderly, even. It is, in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0006ATEI8
• Release Date: January 1953
• Publisher: Random House
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Marvelous blend of history and artistry

In Brother to Dragons, Robert Penn Warren, former poet laureate and twice winner of the Pulitzer, combined the historical elements of the New Madrid earthquake and the murder of a slave by two of Thomas Jefferson's nephews with his love of poetry. This book has various "voices" relating the brutal events in verse, but history is only a vehicle for exploring the nature of evil and Jefferson's dream of the perfectability of mankind.This is a marvelous rather experimental volume; it is both novel, play, and poem. It is grim; it is disturbing; it is absolutely wonderful. I highly recommend this work.