Tag Archives: Robert Penn Warren

Once We Memorized Poetry

By Robin Bates | Published: February 14, 2012

Memorizing poetry used to be standard classroom practice and poetry was widely popular before the snobs came in.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", "Ozymandias", "Trees", Alfred Lord Tennyson, Cleanth Brooks, Gunga Din, Joyce Kilmer, Memorizing poetry, Percy Shelley, Rudyard Kipling, Ulysses, William Wordsworth | Comments closed

Sarah Palin and All the King’s Men

By Robin Bates | Published: February 16, 2010

The political world seems to be agog over Sarah Palin these days, with Joel Klein of Time and David Broder of The Washington Post, two columnists I respect, telling us to take her very seriously. This has got me thinking of fictional populists, especially Willie Stark in Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men (1946), one of […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Alexander Pope, All the King's Men, Epistle to Arburthnot, politics, Populism, Sarah Palin | Comments closed

Shadow Projections on the President

By Robin Bates | Published: September 18, 2009

A couple of months ago I wondered on this blog whether some of the vitriolic attacks on Obama (as distinguished from reasoned disagreement) were driven by racism, and now I see that others are wondering the same, including Maureen Dowd and Jimmy Carter. But a reader of Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish has a more […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Absolon Absolon, All the King's Men, Andrew Sullivan, Barack Obama, Beloved, Daily Dish, Flannery O'Connor, Gloria Naylor, Human Stain, Joseph Conrad, Linden Hills, Philip Roth, right-wing anger, Secret Sharer, Sophie's Choice, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, William Styron, Wise Blood | Comments closed