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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 ...
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]
The American critic Yvor Winters suggested in 1939 an alternative canon of Elizabethan poetry, [30] which would exclude the famous representatives of the Petrarchan school of poetry, represented by Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser.
The first published version can be read at the Poetry web site: [1] The literary critic Yvor Winters considered "Sunday Morning" "the greatest American poem of the twentieth century and... certainly one of the greatest contemplative poems in English" (Johnson, 100). [2]
Yvor Winters (1900–1968, US, p/nf) Jeanette Winterson (born 1959, England, f/ch/nf) Elizabeth Winthrop (born 1948, US, ch) Kwasi Wiredu (1931–2022, Gold Coast ...
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.
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.