![]() ![]() ![]() There is nothing remarkable about a divided allegiance in a man who set out to devote himself to both worlds. Warren’s double career in the creative and critical establishments seems to be the central fact here. While in “Pure and Impure Poetry” he argues that ideas “participate more fully, intensely, and immediately” in poetry by being implicit, his own work typically incorporates ideas “in an explicit and argued form.” Such a habit of mind stations Warren on the border between two modes of imagination, between the artist who works from experience and the critic who works toward meaning. Where commentary does not preempt drama, it quickly intrudes to explicate it. It is scarcely possible while reading them to have the experience but miss the meaning. ![]() His fictions continually resolve into apologues. WARREN’S novels read like essays about themselves. ![]()
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