It rots her sleep—Jenny is one of those who nip like a bird and void like an ox—the poor and lightly damned! That can be a torture also.
—Djuna Barnes, Nightwood.
Robert Penn Warren is a religious poet; and shouldn’t need an exegete—the stuff is all there—but he has been so badly read, when read at all, that Selected Poems, 1923-1943, may really need some new page numbers (for the syntax a religious poet has to have) and a little elementary unheroic plumbing.
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