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

From: Style | Date: June 22, 2002| Author: Beck, Charlotte | Copyright information

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. Warren's two most influential critical essays, "Pure and Impure Poetry" (1943) and "A Poem of Pure Imagination," on Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1946), define Warren's belief, persisting throughout his creative life, in the necessary tension between the i...

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