Robert Penn Warren and American idealism

1. Law, higher law, and the irony of American history.

2. Neutral territory: pragmatism.

3. Neutral territory II: mourning and experience.

4. Elegies, love, and accommodation.

5. 'The ballad of Billie Potts' and value.

6. 'Audubon' and evasion.

7. Landscape and death.

8. Romance and extravagance.

9. Social realism and romance: 'Night rider'.

10. The emergence of romance in 'All the king's men'.

11. The self-subversion of value: 'World enough and time'.

12. 'Brother to dragons': a verse- romance.