Yvor Winters: The American Literary Rhadamanthus

Covering literary news and writings that bear on the literary criticism, philosophy, and poetry of the great but undeservedly obscure American poet and literary critic Yvor Winters. Also covering, at times, news and ideas that bear on the writings of Winters's wife Janet Lewis Winters.

Mar 29, 2016

Mistakes Made, But...

A.O. Scott, the well-known book and film critic of the New York Times , has written of Yvor Winters in his new and widely reviewed book on l...

Mar 25, 2016

The Plain Style Re-Introduced

New York Review Books has reissued John Williams's anthology, English Renaissance Poetry: A Collection of Shorter Poems from Skelton to ...

Apr 30, 2015

Ambiguity

I read a funny one the other day, about ambiguity in poetry. I don't remember where I saw this little piece on the beauty of poetry, tha...

Feb 26, 2015

Philip Levine

The American poet Philip Levine died this month. He was a graduate student of Yvor Winters's in the last years of Winters's life in ...

Jan 15, 2014

Good First Lines

Good first lines from Yvor Winters's criticism: "Before attempting to elucidate or to criticize a poetry so difficult and evasive...

Mar 29, 2012

The Stupidest

I must emerge from my hiatus to say that David Orr's new book on contemporary poetry, "Beautiful and Pointless," just about ha...

Oct 13, 2010

The Birds Begin to Sing

Have you taken any interest in Roger Scruton's new book, Beauty , which came out with some fanfare last year? One short essay among seve...

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