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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. 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.

  5. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    "Exit Music (For a Film)" OK Computer: Radiohead: Romeo & Juliet: William Shakespeare [95] "Fable" Volcano: Gatsbys American Dream: Lord of the Flies: William Golding [96] "Flower of the Mountain" Director's Cut: Kate Bush: Ulysses: James Joyce: The 1989 Kate Bush song The Sensual World was based on the closing paragraphs of Ulysses. However ...

  6. 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.

  7. Game of Thrones: Season 8 (soundtrack) - Wikipedia

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    Arya sets sail for the West. Contains the Stark’s theme ("Goodbye Brother"). A shorter version is used on the main menu of season 8's DVD/Blu-ray release. 4:52: 32. "A Song of Ice and Fire" "The Iron Throne": Jon rides beyond the Wall with Tormund and the Wildlings. Continues into the end credits. Final scene and song of Game of Thrones. An ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Free verse - Wikipedia

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    [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."