I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

He lived the latter part of his life in Fairfield Connecticut and Stratton Vermont where he died of complications from bone cancer. S. However Warren recanted these views in an article on the Civil Rights Movement "Divided South Searches Its Soul" which appeared in the July 9 1956 issue of Life magazine.

He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Robert Penn Warren (April 24 1905 – September 15 1989) was an American poet novelist and literary critic and was one of the founders of New Criticism.