Yvor Winters: Selected Poems by Yvor Winters - ISBN: 9781931082501
Hardcover
As critic and teacher, Yvor Winters was one of the most controversial and influential figures of his time. He criticized the likes of Eliot and Henry James, was called by the chair of his English department "a disgrace," and taught such major poets as Robert Pinsky and Philip Levin…

Yvor Winters: Selected Poems

(American Poets Project #6)

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  • Hardcover

    198 pages

  • Release Date

    13 October 2003

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Summary

A “maverick’s maverick,” Yvor Winters chose a poetic path that led him away from the free-verse fashions of his time to champion traditional literary form. This new selection, edited by his former student Thom Gunn, presents all of the essential poems of Winters’ idiosyncratic career, from his early Imagist experiments to his final meditative masterpieces. Rigorous, impassioned, and austere, these poems offer vivid proof that, as Gunn puts it, “The life of poetry is not just contained but is …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781931082501
ISBN-10:1931082502
Author:Yvor Winters, Thom Gunn
Publisher:The Library of America
Imprint:The Library of America
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:198
Release Date:13 October 2003
Weight:245g
Dimensions:198mm x 122mm x 15mm
Series:American Poets Project
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Critics Review

“It is just Winters’s brand of seriousness and his emphasis on logic and reason in poetry that contemporary verse sorely wants.” –David Yezzi, The New Criterion

“It is just Winters’s brand of seriousness and his emphasis on logic and reason in poetry that contemporary verse sorely wants.” —David Yezzi, The New Criterion

About The Author

Yvor Winters

Thom Gunn(1929-2004) studied with Yvor Winters at Stanford University and was a senior lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley. He published more than 30 books of poetry in the United States and Britain, includingCollected Poems(1994) andBoss Cupid(2000).

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