This is no less
true of Warren's literary criticism, whether in such ambitious works as the famous essay on The Rime
of the Ancient Mariner («A Poem
of Pure Imagination: An Experiment in Reading»), the more modest but nonetheless incisive essays on such writers as Eudora Welty and Katherine Anne Porter, or in the textbooks themselves — just hardheaded practical sense for anybody who
loves literature and believes it is an autonomous discipline and not a substitute for anything else.
It was only during her senior year in college, when she took a children's
literature class, did she discover her
true love of writing.
My list would be incomplete without this self - proclaimed Classic Tale
of True Love and High Adventure, which possesses arguably one
of the most successful framing devices in contemporary
literature.