"The Lust of the Eye": Landscape in the Poetry of Robert Penn Warren

Embodying poems with a sense of place is not originally an American idea. In this country, much poetry that contains landscape follows the same strategies deciphered in English romantic poetry, in which the speaker begins with a description of the landscape with an aspect or change of aspect in the...

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Published inThe Sewanee review Vol. 117; no. 4; pp. 560 - 576
Main Author Martin, John M.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 01.09.2009
Subjects
American literature
Ballad poetry
Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886)
Discourse analysis
English language
Essays
Fugitive poets
Landscapes
Literary criticism
Narrative poetry
Pastoral poetry
Poetic meter
Poetry
Poets
Romantic poetry
Warren, Robert Penn (1905-1989)
Wilderness
Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963)
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Summary:Embodying poems with a sense of place is not originally an American idea. In this country, much poetry that contains landscape follows the same strategies deciphered in English romantic poetry, in which the speaker begins with a description of the landscape with an aspect or change of aspect in the landscape evoking a varied but integral process of memory, thought, anticipation, and feeling which remains closely intervolved with the outer scene. Here, Martin features the poetry of Robert Penn Warren providing a particularly complex illustration of this geographical dimension, relying on landscape to dramatize American ideals and their shortcomings.
ISSN:0037-3052
1934-421X
1934-421X
DOI:10.1353/sew.0.0186