| Yvor Winters: Selected Poems: (American Poets Project #6) Contributor(s): Winters, Yvor (Author), Gunn, Thom (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1931082502 ISBN-13: 9781931082501 Publisher: Library of America OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2003 Annotation: As critic and teacher, Yvor Winters was one of the most controversial and influential figures of his time. He criticized the likes of Eliot and Henry James, was called by the chair of his English department "a disgrace," and taught such major poets as Robert Pinsky and Philip Levine. As a poet, he created a moving body of work featuring natural and personal subjects and dramatic formal experiments. The American Poets Project presents the largest collection of his work ever published. Selected by celebrated poet Thom Gunn, a friend and former student of Winters, this volume begins with early free verse and culminates in late meditative neoclassical masterpieces. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Literary Collections | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.52 |
| LCCN: 2003046638 |
| Series: American Poets Project |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 4.79" W x 7.82" (0.52 lbs) 198 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A "maverick's maverick," Yvor Winters chose a poetic path that led him away from the free-verse fashions of his time to champion traditional literary form. This new selection, edited by his former student Thom Gunn, presents all of the essential poems of Winters' idiosyncratic career, from his early Imagist experiments to his final meditative masterpieces. Rigorous, impassioned, and austere, these poems offer vivid proof that, as Gunn puts it, "The life of poetry is not just contained but is defined by its form." About the American Poets Project Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today's most discerning poets and critics. |