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It s been a long time since I read this but I remember really loving it the first time Poetry Fiction Literary Criticism For November Poetry Fiction Literary Criticism Much better than when I read it in high school Poetry Fiction Literary Criticism This is one of the greatest novels I ve ever read Definitely in my top 5 along with the Bible Shakespeare and Faulkner Poetry Fiction Literary Criticism Phenomenal Timeless writing Every word seems so deliberate Tight plot Spun like a spinner Poetry Fiction Literary Criticism 
A loosely fictionalized account of Governor Huey Long of Louisiana one of the nation s most astounding politicians All the King s Men tells the story of Willie Stark a southern fried politician who builds support by appealing to the common man and playing dirty politics with the best of the back room deal makers Though Stark quickly sheds his idealism his right hand man Jack Burden who narrates the story retains it and proves to be a thorn in the new governor s side Stark becomes a successful leader but at a very high price one that eventually costs him his life This story is a play of politics society and personal affairs all wrapped in the cloak of history Poetry Fiction Literary Criticism Not really a fan of the kind of play where the narrator has to continually fill the audience in on what has happened between scenes or in the past of the characters lives May be different to actually see the play than read it Poetry Fiction Literary Criticism I wanted to read this because is is considered an American classic It is said in many circles that it is one of the best novelizations of the American political system It took me awhile to get through it Robert Penn Warren s writing style may be off putting to some people He has long drawn out explanations that sometimes in my opinion are a little TOO much taking the reader away from the central story I think Warren s strengths in being able to weave words and make the reader really see his story is great though This is not an easy read by any means and if you don t have any desire to read about American politics this is not for you Took me a couple months Overall a good book Poetry Fiction Literary Criticism I wrote a big fat report on this in junior year of high school and found out a lot about how politics work so it s worth a read for that I remember that there are some literary values to it but it s not what I remember 30 odd years later Poetry Fiction Literary Criticism There are some books I love and others I respect or emulate and admire All the King s Men managed to be all three indeed as I write this an hour or two after finishing I am hard pressed to describe either the book or my feelings for it except to say that it is a big aching book big as life itself and that one ought to read it if only for the churning impossible feeling it leaves you with after Georg Lukacs in his 1916 classic The Theory of the Novel wrote that great novelists finger the chasm of impossibility in life they find the places where one part of existence rubs up against the other and a chasm or gap opens up because they don t fit These are the holes we fall into in life the stuff of terror and truth chasms of depth Robert Penn Warren does just this with his exploration of the Time Reponsiblity Historical Greatness Fate Corruption question A book both Greek and Shakespearean in proportions ancient in its portrayal of tragedy and yet every bit American modern and fresh it asks the big questions and with the exception of one or two rather obvious plot conveniences that occur late in the book but which in hindsight seem necessary if inelegant takes neither shortcuts nor easy answers but presses steadily and solidly at the faults of life itself A must read Also a beautiful read at the sentence level from about the middle of the book on I kept bookmarking passages and re reading sentences some as long as two pages Warren is a master of the run on partly for the sheer breathtaking beauty and originality of how they were written but also to learn thus the emulation From meditations on the incongruities of life to questions of fate free will and faith to what to this reader at least read as extended riffs on the nature of the writing life and perspective of the writer the book offers a dazzling array of ideas questions problems possible solutions and images So this book is a thing of beauty and greatness a massive accomplishment for anyone but one perhaps made understandable by Warren s having also earned a Pulitzer in poetry the only writer to do so ever. All the king's daughters This was hands down the best American novel I have read I still may love To Kill a Mockingbird but ATKM has my deepest respect Poetry Fiction Literary Criticism
Robert Penn Warren was an American poet novelist and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry He won the Pulitzer in 1947 for his novel All the Kings Men 1946 and won his subsequent Pulitzer Prizes for poetry in 1957 and then in 1979.
All the king's men show Warren was born on April 24 1905 in Guthrie Kentucky He graduated from Clarksville High School in Tennessee Vanderbilt University in 1925 and the University of California Berkeley in 1926 Warren later attended Yale University and obtained his B Litt as a Rhodes Scholar from New College Oxford in England in 1930 That same year he Robert Penn Warren was an American poet novelist and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry He won the Pulitzer in 1947 for his novel All the King s Men 1946 and won his subsequent Pulitzer Prizes for poetry in 1957 and then in 1979.
All the king's men audiobook free Warren was born on April 24 1905 in Guthrie Kentucky He graduated from Clarksville High School in Tennessee Vanderbilt University in 1925 and the University of California Berkeley in 1926 Warren later attended Yale University and obtained his B Litt as a Rhodes Scholar from New College Oxford in England in 1930 That same year he began his teaching career at Southwestern College now called Rhodes College in Memphis Tennessee He also taught at Vanderbilt University and LSU In 1930 he married Emma Brescia they later divorced in 1951 He then married Eleanor Clark in 1952 They had two children Rosanna Phelps Warren b July 1953 and Gabriel Penn Warren b July 1955 Though his works strongly reflect Southern themes and mindset Warren published his most famous work All the King s Men while a professor at The University of Minnesota and lived the latter part of his life in Fairfield Connecticut and Stratton Vermont He also received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study in Italy during the rule of Benito Mussolini He died on September 15 1989 of complications from bone cancer site_link His version of the widely known work which as a novel was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize had a highly successful Off Broadway run during the 1959 season s told by Atkinson Eliminate the story of Huey Long which Mr Warren says is not what he is trying to interpret He is anatomizing the career with nothing but purity in his heart Discovering that he is being used by a cynical machine Willie adopts their methods and presently he is in control of the state By resorting to corrupt methods he accomplishes things for the people that were only abstract ideals when he was campaigning honestly As a portrait of politics this is effective and provocative All the Kings Men A Play.
