Yvor Winters (1900-1968)

A selective list of online literary criticism for the American poet, teacher, and literary criticYvor Winters, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Web Sites

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introduction & literary criticism

"Yvor Winters." A short biography and brief excerpts of critical discussions on "Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight." Modern American Poetry (U of Illinois). Ed. Edward Brunner.

"Yvor Winters." A short introduction to Yvor Winters. Poetry Foundation.

"Yvor Winters." A very brief introduction to Winters. Academy of American Poets.

Donnelly, Timothy. "A Match Made in Poetry: Yvor Winters vs. Hart Crane." On Winters' enthusiastic admiration for Hart Crane's poetry, which latter turned to harsh condemnation, and the widely differing views of poetry held by Crane and Winters. Academy of American Poets.

Ellman, Richard. "In Training with Live Ammo: A former student recounts the casualties and survivors of a Winters poetry workshop." Richard Ellman writes about studying with Winters at Stanford in the 1950s. "When he was calm, Winters could resemble a large lovable old hound you wished to pet a lot except you knew he sometimes bit." Stanford Magazine, Nov. 2000.

Fields, Kenneth. "True to his Word: Cantankerous in the classroom and contrarian as a critic, Yvor Winters proved a peerless mentor for some of America's best-known poets and writers." On Ivor Winters as a teacher at Stanford. Stanford Magazine, Nov. 2000.

"Poet, critic Yvor Winters remembered at reading held in his honor." The Stanford Report, November 28, 2000.

The Yvor Winters papers located at Stanford University.

Baxter, John. http://www.thenewcompass.ca/jun2004/baxter.html "Winters on the Web." The New Compass: A Critical Review 3 (June 2004).

Fields, Kenneth. http://www.thenewcompass.ca/jun2004/fields.html "Winters and the Aesthetics of Recuperation, or 'The Hypersensitivity of Convalescence.'" An appreciative essay on Yvor Winters. The New Compass: A Critical Review 3 (June 2004).

Harvey, Gordon. http://www.thenewcompass.ca/jun2004/harvey.html "Man at Work: The Phenomenon of Winters's Criticism." The New Compass: A Critical Review 3 (June 2004).

Yezzi, David. http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/15/jun97/winters.htm "The seriousness of Yvor Winters." On Yvor Winter's poetry of reason and logic. The New Criterion

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