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Yvor Winters
American poet
Also known as: Arthur Yvor Winters
Quick Facts
- Born:
- Oct. 17, 1900, Chicago, Ill., U.S.
- Died:
- Jan. 25, 1968, Palo Alto, Calif. (aged 67)
- Awards And Honors:
- Bollingen Prize (1960)
Yvor Winters (born Oct. 17, 1900, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died Jan. 25, 1968, Palo Alto, Calif.) was an American poet, critic, and teacher who held that literature should be evaluated for its moral and intellectual content as well as on aesthetic grounds. Educated at the University of Chicago, University of Colorado (Boulder), and Stanford University (California), Winters taught at the University of Idaho (Pocatello) and at Stanford (1927–66). His attacks on such contemporary literary idols as T.S. Eliot and Henry James aroused much controversy. His collected poems appeared in 1952 (rev. ed., 1960). His major critical works, Primitivism and Decadence, Maule’s ...(100 of 121 words)