Poems of pure imagination
Subtitle: Robert Penn Warren and the romantic tradition
By: Lesa Carnes Corrigan.
Series: Southern literary studies
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
Subjects: Warren, Robert Penn, 1905- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Warren, Robert Penn, 1905- -- Knowledge -- Literature.; American poetry -- English influences.; Imagination.; Southern States -- In literature.; Romanticism -- Southern States.
Description: "When Robert Penn Warren asks, "what / Is man but his passion?" he exemplifies the type of artist that the British Romantics celebrated. Poems of Pure Imagination traces the development of Warren's poetic craft as influenced by that movement's ideals."--BOOK JACKET.

"Lesa Carnes Corrigan lays out clearly the six-decades-long progression in Warren's Romantic vision - a combination of Wordsworth's tempered aesthetics and Yeats's awareness of historical violence and modern estrangement. She demonstrates how closely the poet associated his most deeply felt intuitions about art and life with the overarching philosophies of the Romantics."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-166) and index.