Abstract
While it would be foolish to assert that Warren was a committed Christian and unequivocal believer, a kind of tempered faith does exist in some of Warren’s poems from Now and Then: Poems 1976-1978. Manuscript revisions of “Amazing Grace in the Back Country” and “Heart of the Backlog” reveal Warren’s struggle to find faith, not his conviction of living in it. However, “Heart of Autumn,” the final poem in the volume, points to the conscious act of surrendering to the depth of theistic conflict in its preceding counterparts.
Recommended Citation
Camastra, Nicole
(2007)
"“The Deepest and Widest Metaphor for Life” Re-visions of Christian Faith in Robert Penn Warren’s Later Poetry,"
Robert Penn Warren Studies: Vol. 7, Article 7.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/rpwstudies/vol7/iss1/7