Yvor Winters

In Defense of Reason is a collection of three volumes of literary criticisms by the American poet and literary critic Yvor Winters. First published in 1947, the book is fairly well known in literary circles, both British and American, particularly for its meticulous study of metrical verse and Winters' system of …

A “maverick’s maverick,” Yvor Winters chose a poetic path that led him away from the free-verse fashions of his time to champion traditional literary form. This new selection, edited by his former student Thom Gunn, presents all of the essential poems of Winters’ idiosyncratic career, from his early Imagist …

A critical study of Winters' poetic art introduces a collection of his poems since 1921 and a number of his translations