The years 1969 and 1979 bookend a volatile decade in American history. As an articulate witness to the era of the Vietnam War, Watergate, Jimmy Carter, and the national o?malaise,o? Robert Penn Warren produced a phenomenal body of work, securing his place in the canon of American poetry. Volume five of Selected Letters of Robert Penn Warren: Backward Glances and New Visions, 1969u?1979 includes Warren�s letters to friends, family, peers, editors, inquiring scholars, and criticsu?recording the details of his personal and professional life and illustrating his pivotal role in twentieth-century Ameri… (more)