Robert Penn Warren

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did not always have ambitions to become
a writer, in fact, one of his earlier dreams was to become an adventurer on
the high seas. This fantasy might have indeed come about, for his father
intended to get him an appointment to Annapolis, had it not been for a
childhood accident in which he lost sight in one of his eyes.

Warren was an outstanding student but there were also many books at home,
and he savored reading. His father at one time aspired to be a poet. His
grandfather Penn, with whom he spent much time when he was young, was an
exceptional storyteller and greatly influenced young Red. But both of these
men whom he loved had in some sense failed to achieve. By contrast, Warren
was determined to achieve, to be successful.

During his college years at Vanderbilt, the sense of being physically
maimed, as well as the fear sympathetic blindness in his remaining good eye
became almost unbearable.

At Vanderbilt University he met Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, Donald
Davidson, ...

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