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Arthur Yvor Winters (October 17, 1900 – January 25, 1968) was an American poet and literary critic. Life. ... for the rest of his life. He retired from his Stanford ...
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.
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]
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.
Yvor Winters, poet, known as the "Sage of Palo Alto" [68] Al Young (1939–2021), poet, educator, novelist, and essayist, lived in Palo Alto for almost three decades Jessica Yu (born 1966), screenplay writer and film director, attended Gunn High School
Wescott was born on a farm in Kewaskum, Wisconsin in 1901. [3] His younger brother, Lloyd Wescott, was born in Wisconsin in 1907.He studied at the University of Chicago, [3] where he was a member of a literary circle including Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Yvor Winters, and Janet Lewis, but left after contracting Spanish flu.
Dean Winters’ life flashed before his eyes in June 2009 when his heart stopped beating on the way to a New York City hospital.
Winters characterized Stevens as "a cool master", in an essay with that title, in which he describes Stevens as "this greatest of living and of American poets". [ 26 ] Possibly the most disgruntled reader of Stevens' early poems was the Irish-American poet Shaemas O'Scheel, the author of an Irish war poem, "They Went Forth to Battle, But They ...