Yvor Winters
(1900–1968)

American poet and literary critic

Works edit

  • Diadems and Fagots (1921) poems
  • The Immobile Wind (1921) poems
  • The Magpie's Shadow (1922) poems
  • Secession certain Notes on the Mechanics of the Image (1923) a magazine
  • "The Precincts of February" in The Dial, 1923
  • The Bare Hills (1927) poems
  • The Proof (1930) poems
  • The Journey and Other Poems (1931) poems
  • Before Disaster (1934) poems
  • Primitivism and Decadence: A Study of American Experimental Poetry Arrow Editions, New York, 1937
  • Maule's Curse: Seven Studies in the History of American Obscurantism (1938)
  • Poems (1940)
  • The Giant Weapon (1943) poems
  • The Anatomy of Nonsense (1943)
  • Edwin Arlington Robinson (1946)
  • In Defense of Reason (1947) collects Primitivism, Maule and Anatomy
  • To the Holy Spirit (1947) poems
  • Three Poems (1950)
  • Collected Poems (1952, revised 1960)
  • The Function of Criticism: Problems and Exercises (1957)
  • On Modern Poets: Stevens, Eliot, Ransom, Crane, Hopkins, Frost (1959)
  • The Early Poems of Yvor Winters, 1920–1928 (1966)
  • Forms of Discovery: Critical and Historical Essays on the Forms of the Short Poem in English (1967)
  • Uncollected Essays and Reviews (1976)
  • The Collected Poems of Yvor Winters; with an introduction by Donald Davie (1978)
  • Uncollected Poems 1919–1928 (1997)
  • Uncollected Poems 1929–1957 (1997)
  • Yvor Winters: Selected Poems (2003) edited by Thom Gunn

As editor

  • Twelve Poets of the Pacific (1937)
  • Selected Poems, by Elizabeth Daryush (1948); with a foreword by Winters
  • Poets of the Pacific, Second Series (1949)
  • Quest for Reality: An Anthology of Short Poems in English (1969); with, and with an introduction by, Kenneth Fields

 

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


This author died in 1968, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 55 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 

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