SOURCE: '"The Body of This Death' in Robert Penn Warren's Later Poems," in The Kenyan Review, Vol. 10, No. 4, Fall, 1988, pp. 31-41.
In the following essay, Watkins evaluates Warren's vacillation between skepticism and a religious view of mortality in his last two collections of poetry, Rumor Verified and New and Selected Poems.
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