These essays on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and poet explore every aspect of Robert Penn Warren"s work; the persistent themes that run throughout his poetry and his fiction; the achievement of such major novels as All the King"s Men, Band of Angels, and World Enough and Time; and his novel in verse, Brother to Dragons. Warren"s own essay, "Knowledge and the Image of Man"--a defense of man"s right to be himself, to be a man--is included, as is the complete transcript of the Paris Review interview with Warren by Ralph Ellison and Eugene Walter.