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Article: "A critical sense worthy of respect": John Marston and the early poetics of Robert Penn Warren (1).(Critical Essay)
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- June 22, 2002
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[O]ne only reads well when one reads with some quite personal goal in mind. It may be to acquire some power. It can be out of hatred for the author.
-- Paul Valery (2)
Deep art implies a destruction of order for the sake of reordering. There is something incorrigible and anarchic lurking in art.
-- Robert Penn Warren (3)
In their study of Robert Penn Warren's developing poetics, critics have never given their attention to Warren's B.Litt. thesis on the Elizabethan satirist John Marston. Completed in 1930 as a Rhodes Scholar project at New College, Oxford, "A Study of John Marston's Satires" has remained one of the most obscure moments ...