tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34405376.post8482805475761525318..comments2023-05-11T03:05:56.248-07:00Comments on Yvor Winters: The American Literary Rhadamanthus: Central Purposes of This BlogBen Kilpelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12875096659365405390noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34405376.post-33716381085878163042008-12-05T09:31:00.000-08:002008-12-05T09:31:00.000-08:00Hello Ben,I just received a copy of the Library of...Hello Ben,<BR/><BR/>I just received a copy of the Library of America edition of Winters' poetry (Thom Gunn, editor) in the mail yesterday. As one with almost no exposure to Winters other than hearing a bunch of analytical talk, I was really gratified to find his poems to be both accessible and deeply moving.<BR/><BR/>I could feel my subconscious being tickled by the resonance and connotations of each word and phrase, so that I was powerfully impacted while my conscious still scrambles together words in an attempt to explain the event.<BR/><BR/>That's it. Just thought I'd relay a first impression to you old Winters hands.<BR/><BR/>Greg StonePragmatic Idealisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06375225814206930812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34405376.post-32416643863822118252008-11-19T18:00:00.000-08:002008-11-19T18:00:00.000-08:00BenDon't give up we are out here!!I am reading thi...Ben<BR/><BR/>Don't give up we are out here!!<BR/><BR/>I am reading this on a plane to another consulting engagement...far from the poetic field of play...but find your work one of the few blog spots that has authentic interest. <BR/><BR/>A rabid fan of Valery...a dislike for Stevens and a wonderment at the similarity of selections in the Winters canon to the list of poems Robert Graves admired. Is there any comment by Winters on Graves??<BR/><BR/>I have no lineage except to have suffered Helen Vendler's love of Stevens and anger at my critical view that he was trying to be Mallarme. I think Vendler's close reading came from I.A. Richards.<BR/><BR/>I am new to Winters... through your blog...an recently reviewed web page and "year-of-reading"....whic I hope to enjoy. <BR/><BR/>I found you based on a Valery search. Have enjoyed every minute. Keep it up.<BR/><BR/>Peter ThibeaulPierre Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07770172847422097505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34405376.post-27846736282497393502008-11-12T14:30:00.000-08:002008-11-12T14:30:00.000-08:00Ben,Just discovered your blog after writing an ess...Ben,<BR/><BR/>Just discovered your blog after writing an essay (not as good as yours) on Esther Forbes’s <I>Mirror for Witches</I>:<BR/><BR/>http://dgmyers.blogspot.com/2008/11/esther-forbes-and-mirror-for-witches.html<BR/><BR/>And I have linked to your essay there.<BR/><BR/>I studied under J. V. Cunningham and then wrote a dissertation under Gerald Graff, who was one of Winters’s PhD students at Stanford. So I consider myself to belong to an unbroken chain that leads back to Winters.<BR/><BR/>There are a few Wintersians hiding in the corners of English departments, but we dare not reveal ourselves. It is hard enough these days merely to believe in the importance of literature.<BR/><BR/>Keep up your good work!D. G. Myershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10659136455045567825noreply@blogger.com