D.Gregory Griffith wrote: >he wrote perhaps the most influential >"textbook" on poetry in the 20th century. > For those who don't know it, get _Understanding Poetry_, or "Brooks and Warren" as it is commonly called. It is textbook, but also anthology, and best of all, there is fine writing about poetry and poems. Warren wrote _Understanding Fiction_, too, again with Cleanth Brooks. (Another must-read is Brooks' _The Well Wrought Urn_.) Marcia