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  2. Yvor Winters - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. In Defense of Reason - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. List of tuberculosis cases - Wikipedia

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    Yvor Winters; Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938), American author, died of tuberculosis of the brain. His 1929 novel, Look Homeward, Angel, makes several references to the problem of consumption, though Wolfe's condition appeared rather suddenly in 1937. Jiří Wolker; Simone Weil, French philosopher

  5. J. V. Cunningham - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Janet Lewis - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. List of people from Palo Alto - Wikipedia

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    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

  8. ‘Law & Order: SVU’ stars pay tribute to Richard ... - AOL

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    Dean Winters, who has appeared in over 30 episodes of “SVU” from 1999 to 2019 as Detective Brian Cassidy,” shared a throwback picture of Munch and Cassidy together, calling Belzer his ...

  9. There's a certain Slant of light - Wikipedia

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    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.