Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren: A Literary Correspondence Volume 1

by Robert Penn Warren and James A. Grimshaw

James A. Grimshaw, Jr., brings together for the first time more than 350 letters exchanged by two scholars who altered the way literature is taught in this country. The selected letters focus on the development of their five major textbooks--the rationale for selections, the details involved in obtaining permissions and preparing indexes, and the demands of meeting deadlines. More important, these letters reveal their attitudes toward literature,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826211658
• ISBN13: 9780826211651
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary