Five scholars offer their perceptions of Warren as a historian, critic, novelist and poet. Thomas Connelly sees history as the thematic core of all Warren's writing and discusses the historical circumstances that shaped his art. Louis D. Rubin, Jr. assesses Warren's work as a critic and defends the New Criticism he helped develop against the structuralist movement. Madison Jones discusses his novels, Harold Bloom places Warren in the vanguard of the Eliotic tradition in American poetry and focuses on the hawk imagery that is a motif in Warren's poems, while James Dickey discusses his personal favorites among the poems. Concludes with an interview of Warren by Connelly covering his Southern roots, his relations with members of the fugitive and agrarian movements, and his debt to John Crowe Ransom. ISBN 0-8071-1138-4 : $14.95.