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    A Study Guide for Robert Penn Warren's "Blackberry Winter"
    A Study Guide for Robert Penn Warren's "Blackberry Winter"
    A Study Guide for Robert Penn Warren's "Blackberry Winter"
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    A Study Guide for Robert Penn Warren's "Blackberry Winter"

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    A Study Guide for Robert Penn Warren's "Blackberry Winter," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 6, 2016
    ISBN9781535819572
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      Blackberry Winter

      Robert Penn Warren

      1946

      Introduction

      The novelette Blackberry Winter was originally published separately in 1946 and subsequently collected in Robert Penn Warren’s first and only volume of short stories, The Circus in the Attic, initially published in 1947. Blackberry Winter is widely believed to be Penn’s finest work of short fiction. It has been included in many anthologies and has garnered the interest of critics and readers. Since its first publication, critics have noted Warren’s deft evocation of the textures and rhythms of rural Tennessee and his ear for dialogue. One of the reasons for the story’s popularity is the universal appeal of the narrator, whose boyhood innocence is as convincing as his adult ambivalence and restlessness.

      Author Biography

      A Southerner by birth and by nature, Robert Penn Warren was born in 1905 in Guthrie, Kentucky and died of cancer at his Vermont vacation home in September, 1989. His legacy includes major contributions to fiction, poetry, drama, and criticism. In a tribute to Warren in the Kenyon Review, a journal he helped establish, editor David Lynn commemorated the end of a miraculous career of an American laureate. Other than, perhaps, [Ralph Waldo] Emerson, Lynn continues, no other American has ever stood among the first rank in so many

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