Poems of pure imagination : Robert Penn Warren and the Romantic tradition
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Poems of pure imagination : Robert Penn Warren and the Romantic tradition
（Southern literary studies）
Louisiana State University Press, c1999
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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When Robert Penn Warren asks "what / Is man but his passion?", he exemplifies the type of artist that the British Romantics celebrated. This study traces the development of Warren's poetic craft as influenced by that movement's ideals. It is a detailed guide to the work of one of America's most distinguished 20th-century poets. Lesa Carnes Corrigan lays out clearly the six decades of progression on Warren's Romantic vision - a combination of Wordsworth's tempered aesthetics and Yeats' awareness of historical violence and modern estrangement. From Warren's early fugitive poems of despairing naturalism, through his Romantic "conversion" experience in the 1940s, and into his later works that are marked by qualified but definable joy and hopefulness, Corrigan demonstrates how closely the poet associated his most deeply felt intuitions about life with the overarching philosophies of the Romantics. The urgent questioning that eventually becomes the hallmark of Warren's best work was present from the beginning, she shows, and all verse written after his ten-year drought embodied a Romantic prospect of renewal and capacity for ecstasy.
This work explores one of the most powerful inspirations for the complex, diverse work of America's first Poet Laureate and affords a comprehensive companion to his poems for both new and practised readers.
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