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Article: Introduction: the aesthetics of Robert Penn Warren.
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- June 22, 2002
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The dust has cleared, and no one left standing believes that politics and poetics are completely separable. That certain people ever held such a belief-more specifically, that the acclaimed poet, novelist, and scholar Robert Penn Warren ever held such a belief--has, in fact, been a fiction perpetrated, on the one hand, by those uncomfortable by what they perceived to be Warren's politics and, on the other, by those eager to restrict the spotlight to Warren's aesthetics alone. The nine essays collected here take a kaleidoscopic view of influence received and perpetrated by Warren, particularly in his early career, but also through the later novels and poems. Relieved (by ...