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  2. 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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Benito Cereno - Wikipedia

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    The scene of Babo's shaving of Don Benito is, in Delbanco's words, "a meditation on subjectivity itself." Captain Delano enjoys the sight of Babo performing the kind of personal service to his master Delano thinks blacks are especially well suited for, manicuring, hair-dressing, and barbering. [note 3] Don Benito, on the other hand, shakes with ...

  5. 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

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    In the clip, Jason Winters's jaw drops as the sound of spilling liquid echoes throughout the room. "There you go. I’m sick of it," Abbey Winters can be heard saying. "Oh, that’s classy!" one ...

  7. Gerald Graff - Wikipedia

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    Graff's emphasis on literature as rational statement bears comparison with the theories of Yvor Winters, his professor at Stanford in the 1960s. Graff's later research has a heavy focus on pedagogy. He has discussed things like his own dislike of books at an early age and the way in which academic discourse is needlessly obscure.

  8. 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.

  9. 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]