The Function of Criticism: Problems and Exercises

Winters, Yvor

ISBN 10: 0804001308 / ISBN 13: 9780804001304

Published by Swallow Press, 1957

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Function of Criticism: Problems and Exercises
• Publisher: Swallow Press
• Publication Date: 1957
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0804001308
• ISBN 13: 9780804001304
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • LITERARY CRITICISM

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Synopsis

The Function of Criticism: Problems and Exercises brings together five essays by Yvor Winters: “Problems for the Modern Critic of Literature,” “The Audible Reading of Poetry,” “The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins,” “Robert Frost, Or the Spiritual Drifter as Poet,” and “English Literature in the Sixteenth Century.”

About the Author

Yvor Winters (1900-1968) was a poet, critic, and Stanford University professor of English literature. He won the Bollingen Prize in 1961.