Robert Penn Warren and American idealism
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xi, 238 pages ; 24 cm
9780300040678, 0300040679
15859731
Introduction
Law, higher law, and the irony of American history
Neutral territory: pragmatism
Neutral territory II: mourning and experience
Elegies, love, and accommodation
The Ballad of Billie Potts and value
Audubon and evasion
Landscape and death
Romance and extravagance
Social realism and romance: Night rider
The emergence of romance in All the King's men
The self-subversion of value: World enough and time
Brother to dragons: a verse-romance