SOURCE: Jancovich, Mark. “Robert Penn Warren as New Critic: Against Propaganda and Irresponsibility.” Southern Literary Journal 24, no. 1 (fall 1991): 53-65.
In the following essay, Jancovich concentrates on the work of Robert Penn Warren, writing that in contrast to many interpretations of New Critical theories as bourgeois. In fact, Warren and his interest in literature and theory was closely linked to a concern with social and economic development and the poet defined the writing of literature “as a form of social engagement.”
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