Selected poems
By: Yvor Winters ; Thom Gunn, editor.
Contributors: Gunn, Thom.
Series: American poets project
Publisher: The Library of America
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
Description: 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. This volume presents the largest collection of his work.
Notes: Includes index.