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Yvor Winters' memorable prose is highly polished, formal, and exacting. He was a fine stylist and a strikingly scrupulous interpreter of literary artworks. He was often and sometimes still is mistakenly considered one of the New Critics because of his many careful readings of individual works of poetry, fiction, and drama.
Winters's critical style was comparable to that of F. R. Leavis, and in the same way he created a school of students (of mixed loyalty).His affiliations and proposed canon, however, were quite different: Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence above any one novel by Henry James, Robert Bridges above T. S. Eliot, Charles Churchill above Alexander Pope, Fulke Greville and George Gascoigne above ...
In high school, he first corresponded with Yvor Winters who was then a graduate student at Stanford University and who later became an influential poet and critic. The death of Cunningham's father in an accident and the family's resulting financial hardship prevented Cunningham from continuing immediately to college.
She married the American poet and critic Yvor Winters in 1926. Together they founded Gyroscope, a literary magazine that lasted from 1929 until 1931. [4] Lewis was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992. [6] She died at her home in Los Altos, California, in 1998, at the age of 99. [1]
Critic Yvor Winters claims in In Defense of Reason that it is amongst three of Dickinson's most successful poems, alongside "A Light exists in Spring" and "As imperceptibly as grief." [ 18 ] Winters also claims that despite some defects in her writing, Emily Dickinson is the greatest lyric poet of all time.
[19] Yvor Winters, the poet and critic, said, "…the greatest fluidity of statement is possible where the greatest clarity of form prevails. … The free verse that is really verse—the best that is, of W.C. Williams , H. D. , Marianne Moore , Wallace Stevens , and Ezra Pound —is, in its peculiar fashion, the antithesis of free."
A scary, sobering look at fatal domestic violence in the United States
Josian claims that though married she is still a virgin and urges him to remember their love. [38] They escape from the court while Yvor is away with his army to help his brother, the King of Dabilent. [40] Yvor's henchman King Garcy remains behind, but he is put to sleep with a soporific (wine drugged with herb) by Josian's chamberlain Bonifas.