Robert Penn Warren vs. Virginia Woolf

Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers

Robert Penn Warren

Robert Penn Warren

1905 – 1989

Literature
United States

Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, literary critic and professor at Yale University. He was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

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"How do poems grow? They grow out of your life."

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Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

1882 – 1941

Literature
United Kingdom
Bloomsbury Group

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.

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"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."

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Connections

Virginia Woolf was influenced by Robert Penn Warren
Shared era: 1905 – 1941