Yvor Winters Summary

When Yvor Winters's publisher and friend Alan Swallow hailed him in 1940 as the "sage of Palo Alto," he accurately touched on the paradox of Winters's career: the isolation in which he became admired ... Read more

Critical Essay by Delmore Schwartz [The essay from which this excerpt is taken was originally published in The Southern Review, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1938.] Mr. Yvor Winters has written [Primitivism and ... Read more

Critical Essay by W. W. Robson I cannot admire [Forms of Discovery]. It does not seem to me, as a whole, either sound literary history or sound criticism. Clearly Winters is not a writer like W. P. K... Read more

Critical Essay by Grosvenor Powell [The essay from which the following excerpt is taken was originally published in a slightly different form as "Two Essays: 'Quantity and the Meters of... Read more

Critical Essay by Randall Jarrell Maule's Curse, which is supposed to relate "the history of ideas (a history of ideas that, neglecting both science and philosophy, is almost wholly the... Read more

Critical Essay by R. P. Blackmur [The essay from which this excerpt is taken was originally published in Poetry, November 1940.] What is most valuable about Yvor Winters as a critic is just what i... Read more

Critical Essay by Cleanth Brooks [Yvor Winters] is not amiable, not charming, obviously very earnest, and willing to split a hair to any distinguishable degree of fineness. Moreover, he exhibits all ... Read more

Critical Essay by William Barrett [In a] general sense Yvor Winters is one of the philosophical critics, and his work may be taken to illustrate both the difficulties and the dangers of the critical ... Read more