The Selected Poems of Yvor Winters

by Winters, Yvor; Barth, R. L.; Trimpi, Helen Pinkerton

• ISBN13: 9780804010122
• ISBN10: 0804010129
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: Swallow Pr

Summary

As part of the ongoing effort of the Ohio University Press/Swallow Press to reintroduce the work of a number of significant twentieth-century poets to a new generation of readers, we are especially enthusiastic about publishing the selected poems of Yvor Winters, whose work and influence was so central to the development of the poetry list at Swallow Press. Yvor Winters (1900-1968) was a friend, colleague, and teacher to poets of several generations from Hart Crane and Allen Tate to J. V. Cunningham, Turner Cassity, and Edgar Bowers to Robert Hass, Philip Levine, and Robert Pinsky. His impact on mid-to-late twentieth-century poetry is profound. This stems in large part from his poetry, which was a reflection of his critical thinking about poetry, and which underwent substantive changes over his career as a poet. His collected poems won the Bollingen Prize in 1960.

Table of Contents

The Dedication	v	(6)
Acknowledgments	xi	(2)
Preface	xiii	(4)
R.L. Barth
Introduction: Yvor Winters as Critic and Poet	xvii
Helen Pinkerton Trimpi
Two Songs of Advent	1	(1)
One Ran Before	2	(1)
Song for a Small Boy Who Herds Goats	3	(1)
Alone	4	(1)
Winter Echo	5	(1)
Spring Rain	5	(1)
The Aspen's Song	5	(1)
God of Roads	5	(1)
A Deer	5	(1)
The Precincts of February	6	(1)
Jose's Country	7	(1)
The Upper Meadows	8	(1)
Moonrise	9	(1)
The Cold	10	(1)
Digue Dondaine, Digue Dondon	11	(2)
Nocturne	13	(1)
"Quod Tegit Omnia"	14	(1)
Song ("Where I Walk out")	15	(1)
April	16	(1)
The Cold Room	17	(1)
The Barnyard	18	(1)
The Rows of Cold Trees	19	(1)
Prayer beside a Lamp	20	(1)
Vacant Lot	21	(1)
The Deep: A Service for All the Dead	22	(1)
Demigod	23	(1)
Orange Tree	24	(1)
Song of the Trees	25	(1)
The Goatherds	26	(1)
The Vigil	27	(1)
Simplex Munditiis	28	(1)
Sonnet ("This God-envenomed loneliness, the stain")	29	(1)
The Moralists	30	(1)
The Realization	31	(1)
To William Dinsmore Briggs Conducting His Seminar	32	(1)
The Invaders	33	(1)
The Castle of Thorns	34	(1)
Apollo and Daphne	35	(1)
The Empty Hills	36	(1)
Moonrise	37	(1)
Inscription for a Graveyard	38	(1)
The Last Visit	39	(1)
For Howard Baker	40	(1)
The Slow Pacific Swell	41	(2)
The Marriage	43	(1)
On a View of Pasadena from the Hills	44	(3)
The Journey	47	(2)
A Vision	49	(3)
Anacreontic	52	(1)
To a Young Writer	53	(1)
For My Father's Grave	54	(1)
By the Road to the Air-Base	55	(1)
Elegy on a Young Airedale Bitch Lost Some Years Since in the Salt-Marsh	56	(1)
Midas	57	(1)
Sonnet to the Moon	58	(1)
Before Disaster	59	(1)
The Prince	60	(1)
Phasellus Ille	61	(1)
Orpheus	62	(1)
On the Death of Senator Thomas J. Walsh	63	(1)
Dedication for a Book of Criticism	64	(1)
A Leave-Taking	65	(1)
On Teaching the Young	66	(1)
Chiron	67	(1)
Heracles	68	(2)
Alcmena	70	(1)
Theseus: A Trilogy	71	(5)
Socrates	76	(2)
John Day, Frontiersman	78	(1)
John Sutter	79	(2)
The California Oaks	81	(2)
On Rereading a Passage from John Muir	83	(1)
The Manzanita	84	(1)
Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight	85	(2)
An October Nocturne	87	(1)
Much in Little	88	(1)
The Cremation	89	(1)
An Elegy	90	(2)
Time and the Garden	92	(1)
A Prayer for My Son	93	(1)
In Praise of California Wines	94	(1)
A Summer Commentary	95	(1)
On the Portrait of a Scholar of the Italian Renaissance	96	(1)
A Winter Evening	97	(1)
Summer Noon: 1941	98	(1)
To a Military Rifle	99	(2)
For the Opening of the William Dinsmore Briggs Room	101	(1)
At the Site of the Murphy Cabin	102	(1)
Moonlight Alert	103	(1)
To the Holy Spirit	104	(2)
A Song in Passing	106	(1)
At the San Francisco Airport	107	(1)
To Herbert Dean Meritt	108	(1)
Bibliography of Yvor Winters's Books of Poetry	109	(2)
Notes	111	(14)
R.L. Barth
Index of Poem Titles and First Lines	125