Forms of Discovery: Critical & Historical Essays on the Forms of the Short Poem in English

by Yvor Winters

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With Forms of Discovery, Yvor Winters completes his critical canon. The distinguished poet-critic defines by analysis and example the development of the method that he has called "post-Symbolist." Starting with the styles of the English Renaissance, Winters discusses at length the felicities and shortcomings of these traditions, the main defect being that sensory imagery was little more than ornament. This sets the problem: to discover a style...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0804001197

ISBN13:9780804001199

Release Date:June 2017

Publisher:Ohio University Press

Length:400 Pages

Weight:0.95 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 8.6"

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Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature & Fiction

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