Yvor Winters

Yvor Winters (born Oct. 17, 1900, Chicago, Ill., U.S.—died Jan. 25, 1968, Palo Alto, Calif.) was an American poet, critic, and teacher who held that literature should be evaluated for its moral and intellectual content as well as on aesthetic grounds. Educated at the University of Chicago, University of Colorado (Boulder), and Stanford University (California), Winters taught at the University of Idaho (Pocatello) and at Stanford (1927–66). His attacks on such contemporary literary idols as...