SOURCE: Burt, Stephen Jennifer Lewin. “Poetry and the New Criticism.” In A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry, Neil Roberts, pp. 153-67. Oxford, England: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.
In the following essay, Burt and Lewin provide brief literary histories of poets and critics such as Tate, Ransom, and Warren, as well as later New Critics such as Empson, Winters and Blackmur, evaluating their poetry in light of their theories of New Criticism.
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