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USC Beaufort adjunct English professor Charlotte H. Beck recently celebrated the release of her newest book, Robert Penn Warren, Critic. University of Tennessee Press.
"Despite the fact that Robert Penn Warren was one of the most prolific critics of the twentieth century, Charlotte H. Beck's [work] is the first thorough study of Warren as a literary critic in his own right," according to the publisher. "Using a largely chronological approach, Beck has carefully traced the evolution of Warren's criticism, focusing on seminal examples of the critical books, essays, and introductions that Warren produced over a period of almost 70 years.
"Beck's analysis...will appeal not only to scholars of American literature and Southern literary history but also will contribute to the contemporary resurgence of interest in Warren's writing, demonstrating that Warren belongs in the first rank of twentieth-century American critics."
Beck also is the author of Worlds and Lives: The Poetry of Randall Jarrell and The Fugitive Legacy: A Critical History. She is a professor emerita of Maryville College, Maryville, Tenn.
8/06
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