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

by Yvor Winters

Book Overview

With Forms of Discover, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804001197
• ISBN13: 9780804001199
• Release Date: January 1967
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 8.6"