In Defense of Reason: Three Classics of Contemporary Criticism

by Yvor Winters

Book Overview

Yvor Winters has here collected, with an introduction, the major critical works-Primitivism and Decadence, Maule's Curse, and The Anatomy of Nonsense-of the period in which he worked out his famous and influential critical position. The works together show an integrated position which illuminates the force and importance of the individual essays. With The Function of Criticism, a subsequent collection, In Defense of Reason provides...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804001510
• ISBN13: 9780804001519
• Release Date: March 1987
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 627 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.3" x 8.0"