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by: Yvor Winters
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780804002585
ISBN: 0804002584
Label: Swallow Pr
Manufacturer: Swallow Pr
Number Of Pages: 199
Publication Date: 1969-06
Publisher: Swallow Pr
Sales Rank: 1945448
Studio: Swallow Pr
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Rating: - The Greatest Poems of All Time
Yvor Winters (1900-1968) decided to illustrate by example what he thought are the greatest poems ever written in English. So here they reside, 185 of them. A few, very few, will be well known to readers of poetry; most are puzzingly obscure. All but a handful (in my view) are so great that it takes one's breath away to read them. Reading them almost makes for mystical experiences. Among the poems that the common critics have missed but Winters found and championed to his dying day are Jonson's ... Read More
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