Yvor Winters
Arthur Yvor Winters (17 October 1900 – 25 January 1968) was an American poet and literary critic.
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“And you are here beside me, small,
Contained and fragile, and intent
On things that I but half recall—”
—Yvor Winters (1900–1968)
“Gascoigne, Ben Jonson, Greville, Raleigh, Donne,
Poets who wrote great poems, one by one,
And spaced by many years, each line an act
Through which few labor, which no men retract.
This passion is the scholar’s heritage,”
—Yvor Winters (1900–1968)