Robert Penn Warren Was Born In Gutherie, Kentucky In 1905. After Graduating From

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Term Paper Title	Robert Penn Warren Was Born In Gutherie, Kentucky In 1905. After Graduating From
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   Robert Penn Warren was born in Gutherie, Kentucky in 1905.  After graduating from high school, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee to attend Vanderbilt University.
Warren began his study working toward a major in Chemistry.  Soon, the English proffessors and poets, Donald Davidson and John Crowe Ransom won him over into the analysis of Leterature and Poetry.
   Robert's maternal grandfather, Gabriel Thomas Penn, was his essential origin of information and also, his idol.  The old man was a Civil War Veteran who had fought with General Forester.  He resided on an old, rundown tobacco farm encircled by his books, largely a selection of military history.  To his grandson he was the "living symbol of the wild action and romance of the past."  Grandfather Penn was very important to Warren's success as well as the rural setting the farm provided.  His grandfather devoted much more time to the boy than did his own father.  Warren said his grandfather could "quote poetry by the yard."  This explains why Warren has been so engrossed in the Civil War and why he judged it to be the "Greatest American Epic."  Steve Oney in "A Southern Voice" describes a scene from Warren's youth:  "Almost from the time he could walk, Warren spent his afternoons with the old man.  Grandpa Penn would sit beneath a tree with the young boy on his knee and reel off ceaseless stories about the Civil War.  Fantasies and fascina...

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