Robert Penn Warren and the poetics of (im)purity.

Style | June 22, 2002| | Copyright

Robert Penn Warren's attacks on the notion of pure poetry began in his earliest critical writings but came into focus during the 1940s when his major critical essays were written and his own poetic practice was in transition. "Pure and Impure Poetry," first delivered as a lecture entitled "Pure Poetry and the Structure of Poems" in 1942 and first published in the Kenyon Review in Spring 1943, sets forth the issue that was clearly uppermost in Warren's thinking during the decade of the 1940s. Along with his equally influential essay "A Poem of Pure Imagination," on Coleridge's ...

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