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SELECTED POEMS (63 pp.)-Elizabeth Daryush-Selected by Yvor Winters-Swallow-Morrow...
...Among U.S. poets and critics who will teach at Kenyon's new School of English during the next three summers: Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Robert Lowell, Cleanth Brooks, Lionel Trilling, William Empson, Matthiessen, R. P. Blackmur, Yvor Winters...
...poetry, as in everything else, reason should be the controlling principle. That is what Professor Yvor Winters of Stanford believes, and with passion. Winters has a sensitiveness to poetic effects that lifts his criticism of the late poet Edwin Arlington Robinson far out of the academic class...
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (162 pp.) -Yvor Winters- New Directions...
...publisher, Laughlin brought out well-printed books of obscure verse by Dudley Fitts, Kay Boyle, essays by Yvor Winters, a novel, White Mule, by William Carlos Williams, three anthologies of new writing. Loading his car with copies of his books, he sells them himself, arguing with hard-boiled booksellers from Manhattan to Detroit, who almost unanimously urge him to get out of the book business. Books are merchandise, they say, which clearly rules out New Directions publications...