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Yvor Winters
Born(1900-10-17)October 17, 1900
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
DiedJanuary 25, 1968(1968-01-25) (aged 67)
EducationUniversity of Chicago
University of Colorado

Arthur Yvor Winters (October 17, 1900 – January 25, 1968) was an American poet and literary critic.

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Yvor Winters

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Arthur Yvor Winters (October 17, 1900 – January 25, 1968) was an American poet and literary critic. Winters was born in Chicago, Illinois and lived there...

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Western canon

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Palgrave's Golden Treasury. In the twentieth century T. S. Eliot and Yvor Winters were two literary critics who were especially concerned with revising...

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Autotelic

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their goal is the full exercise of themselves, for their own sake". Yvor Winters quotes from Eliot's aesthetic theory including autotelic, and criticizes:...

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Thom Gunn

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he's certainly one of the few to profess genuine admiration for both [Yvor] Winters (the archformalist) and Allen Ginsberg (the arch ... well, Allen Ginsberg)"...

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John Edward Williams

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(Doubleday). The publication elicited a backlash from poet and literary critic Yvor Winters who claimed that Williams's anthology overlapped with his canon and the...

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In Defense of Reason

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literary critic Yvor Winters. First published in 1947, the book is known for its meticulous study of metrical verse and for its examples of Winters' system of...

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Hart Crane

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and Yvor Winters: Their Literary Correspondence, ed. Thomas Parkinson, Berkeley: University of California Press (1978) Hart Crane and Yvor Winters, rebuttal...

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Bollingen Prize

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1959 – Theodore Roethke 1960 – Delmore Schwartz and David Jones 1961 – Yvor Winters 1962 – John Hall Wheelock and Richard Eberhart 1963 – Robert Frost American...

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Free verse

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be free in the sense of having no limitations or guiding principles." Yvor Winters, the poet and critic, said, "…the greatest fluidity of statement is possible...

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Elizabethan literature

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Poetry and Poets in 1957).[citation needed] In 1939, American critic Yvor Winters suggested an alternative canon of Elizabethan poetry, in which he excluded...

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Donald Hall

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one year as a Creative Writing Fellow, studying under the poet-critic, Yvor Winters. Following his year at Stanford, Hall went back to Harvard, where he...

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Elizabeth Daryush

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readers, as exampled in her poem Accentedal in the quaternion form. Yvor Winters, the poet and critic, considered Daryush more successful in writing syllabics...

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List of people from Palo Alto

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author and illustrator. Tad Williams, New York Times best-selling author. Yvor Winters, poet, known as the "Sage of Palo Alto." Ron Unz (born 1961), far-right...

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Mina Loy

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Carlos Williams, Basil Bunting, Gertrude Stein, Francis Picabia, and Yvor Winters, among others. As stated by Nicholas Fox Weber in the New York Times...

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Monostich

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Monthly. In the 1920s one-line poetry was rediscovered in the US by Yvor Winters, Edwin Ford Piper, Charles Reznikoff and others. Later, John Ashbery...

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John Sutter

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Archived from the original on July 5, 2022. Yvor Winters, “John Sutter” from The Selected Poems of Yvor Winters, edited by R. L. Barth. Used by permission...

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Robinson Jeffers

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The book was negatively reviewed by several critics, including poets Yvor Winters and Kenneth Rexroth. By 1977 Jeffers' reservations seemed prescient and...

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List of San Francisco Bay Area writers

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Mystery of the Barranca Sean Wilsey (1970 – ), Oh the Glory of It All Yvor Winters (October 17, 1900 – January 25, 1968), "The Testament of a Stone" Emma...

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Emily Dickinson

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New Critics—among them R. P. Blackmur, Allen Tate, Cleanth Brooks and Yvor Winters—appraised the significance of Dickinson's poetry. As critic Roland Hagenbüchle...

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List of modernist poets

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Edith Sitwell Kenneth Slessor Gertrude Stein Wallace Stevens Allen Tate Robert Penn Warren William Carlos Williams Yvor Winters W. B. Yeats Louis Zukofsky...

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The Dial

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Rousseau, George Saintsbury, Gilbert Seldes, Scofield Thayer, Paul Valéry, Yvor Winters Vol. 81 (July–December 1926) Paul Cézanne, Hart Crane, Thomas Craven...

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Stanford University Press

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their home on the Stanford campus. Janet Lewis, wife of Stanford poet Yvor Winters, campaigning for Lamson's acquittal, wrote a pamphlet emphasizing the...

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Malcolm Cowley

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drivers during World War I Letters to Cowley from Yvor Winters in The Selected Letters of Yvor Winters, ed. R. L. Barth, Athens, OH: Swallow Press/Ohio...

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William Empson

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Schwartz, Eric Bentley, Cleanth Brooks, Arthur Mizener, Allen Tate and Yvor Winters. In 1953 Empson was professor of rhetoric at Gresham College, London...

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