Pulitzer Prize Poetry Winner

Now and Then

by Robert Penn Warren

Summary

These late poems range across memory, Southern landscape, and the long shadows cast by personal and national history. Warren's voice is rugged and oratorical, willing to interrogate its own certainties as it moves between narrative anecdote and metaphysical speculation. The collection shows a senior writer still pressing at the seam between lived experience and moral reckoning.

Historical Context & Significance

This was Warren's third Pulitzer (one for Fiction, two for Poetry), solidifying his unique place in literature.