Research On Robert Penn Warren’ Poetic Theory

Robert Penn Warren is one of the most important literary critics of the20th century in the American, and he is also a remarkable-creation poet and novelist. In his sixty years of writing career, he has left a rich of literary criticism and literary heritage to the future generation. Warren is not only the New Criticism advocates, and he is also one of the Physiocrats and Fugitive Poets. Although literary theory research thinks that:the most important achievements of Warren is in the field of his poetic creation, however, his contribution in literary criticism is also to be reckoned with, is worth for sorting, analyzing and researching.Warren is a literary critic, and he is also a poet, so his poetic theory often in his creative practice of corroboration. The reason is that in the six-decade writing career, Warren’s poetry creation has been a brief period of stagnation in40-50s,after this period,the style of his poetry has a obvious change,the cause of this major turning point in Warren is the change of his poetic theory.This essay unfold in three parts, the theoretical sources,the specific interpretation of the theory and the practice of his theory.The essay begins with a analysis of the background of Warren’s Poetic Concept,through discussing the creation of Warren and the concrete practice of criticism,to illustrate Warren’s poetic conception in multiple perspectives and different levels.Finally the essay discuss the value of Warren’s poetic concept in the current social situation and literary criticism.The first part explains the theoretical background of Warren’s poetic ideas.This part first explains the cultural background of the American in20th century,then analyses the origin of the new criticism and the peculiar historical culture connotation of southern United States,aiming at digging the motivation of the formation of Warren’s poetic ideas.The second part illustrates the concrete connotation of Warren’s poetic ideas. Warren’s creation presents a obvious stage, the cause of this stage is the transformation of Warren’s poetic ideas.This part mainly makes a brief explanation to Warren’s late and early concepts of poetics,and at the same time singles out the Warren’s the theory of impure poetry, in order to understand the detail of the New Criticism roundly.The third part mainly elaborates the practice of Warren’s poetic ideas,as with most members of the New Criticism, Warren is both a critic and a creator. This part main] discusses the concrete application of Warren’s poetic theory from the Warren’s litera creation and literary criticism practice, illustrating the feasibility of Warren’s poetic theory.The epilogue part analyzes the value of Warren’s poetic theory and the modern value the New Criticism, combined with the status of social environment and the criticism. Whi the New Criticism as a literary faction has gone, but its theory and the method of literal criticism is worth to reference for future generations; today, the money worship and fetishis prevails, and Warren’s poetic theory may have some positive benefits for eliminating t social evils.