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Literary Imagination Advance Access originally published online on November 24, 2007
Literary Imagination 2008 10(1):102-122; doi:10.1093/litimag/imm097
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Yvor Winters and Generality: A Classical/Neoclassical Perspective

William Edinger*

*William Edinger, University of Maryland Baltimore County, MD, USA.

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I propose to look at some features of literary generality in both the poetry and criticism of Yvor Winters, and to frame my discussion of these features, as far as seems warranted, in the language of classical and neoclassical criticism. By "classical criticism" I mean here principally the Greek and Roman rhetorical critics of antiquity, and especially "Longinus." By "neoclassical criticism" I mean the tradition of eighteenth-century British critics who modeled themselves in important ways on the criticism of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Since Winters’ own criticism shows little or no sign of direct indebtedness to these traditions, I must say a word in defense of my procedure. Literary history exhibits patterns of recurrence as well as patterns of influence. After having been an avant-garde poet and theorist for most of his twenties, Winters passed through a crisis that was simultaneously personal, philosophic, and artistic, and that forced him . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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