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Forms of Discovery - Critical and Historical Essays on the Forms of the Short Poem in English (Paperback)
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With Forms of Discover, Yvor Winters completes his critical canon.
The distinguished poet-critic defines by analysis and example the
development of the method that he has called "post-Symbolist."
Starting with the styles of the English Renaissance, Winters
discusses at length the felicities and shortcomings of these
traditions, the main defect being that sensory imagery was little
more than ornament. This sets the problem: to discover a style
wherein both the conceptual and the perceptual are given their
fullest expression In the work of Charles Churchill, Winters
explores the development of a complexly controlled associational
procedure. Here is a richly varied conceptual method, though the
sensory is still almost totally absent. Churchill's methods and
those of the Renaissance masters are then contrasted with the work
of the Romantics, who wrote a great deal about nature without
bothering to look at it, and whose most lasting contribution would
appear to be pathetically sentimental fallacies. The turn of the
century, in France, Britain, and America, sees the beginning of the
post-Symbolist methods, while Yeats continues the retrograde
movement of the Romantics. It is in the work of poets like
Tuckerman, Hardy, Bridges, Stevens, T. Sturge Moore, and Paul
Valery that rational discourse combines richly with the perceptual
universe in which we live: the particular perception is enhance by
reference to general concepts, the general given substance by the
particular exemplifying it. The post-Symbolist methods result in a
poetry that unifies the diverse fields of human experience and
employs all aspects of language. Style in Winters' sense is not
simply a way of gracefully combining words. It is the way a man
lives, the method or art wherein he discovers to the best of his
ability the real nature of the world in which he lives. It is in
this sense that Forms of Discovery is a philosophical work, not a
miscellaneous collection of essays; this book is, as Winters
remarks, "an act of piety, not an act of destruction."
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