Evaluates the writer's controversial influence as a critic and teacher, noting his use of the natural world as well as personal subjects in his poetry, in a collection that is comprised of his free early works through his later meditative neoclassical pieces.

Product Description: Poet, teacher and critic, Yvor Winters, was a man of letters in more ways than one. This selection of his personal correspondence spans half a century of literary history and a lifetime of intellectual development and growth. They are addressed to a panoply of poets, writers and editors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Yvor Winters (1900-1968) was a friend, colleague, and teacher to poets of several generations from Hart Crane and Allen Tate to J. V. Cunningham, Turner Cassity, and Edgar Bowers to Robert Hass, Philip Levine, and Robert Pinsky. This retrospective of one hundred poems, edited by the poet and publisher R...read more

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A critical study of Winters' poetic art introduces a collection of his poems since 1921 and a number of his translations

Product Description: An analysis of the work of the modern American experimental poets.THIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY: Books for College Libraries; Guide to the Study of the United States of America.

Product Description: Function Of Criticism, The: Problems And Exercises by Winters, Yvor

Product Description: Yvor Winters has here collected, with an introduction, the major critical works—Primitivism and Decadence, Maule’s Curse, and The Anatomy of Nonsense—of the period in which he worked out his famous and influential critical position...read more