A beloved university teacher and an esteemed literary critic, Austin Warren (18991986) was also an extraordinary epistolary artist. During a long lifetime, he produced a steady stream of letters to friends and colleagues, adjutants and auditors; all his letters evinced the concerns of a fully engaged writer seeking and finding his vocation. These letters are not simply those of a man of letters, but also of a man in search of his interior self. The Letters of Austin Warren enables a reader to perceive what epistolary art signifies, and to appreciate the rehabilitative powers and possibilities of communication and connection that it generates. One who pores over these letters will take an intimate part in the works and days of Austin Warren, Man of Letters and Epistolary Artist.

Book Information
ISBN 9780881462203
Author Austin Warren
Format Hardback
Page Count 200
Imprint Mercer University Press
Publisher Mercer University Press