Yvor Winters has here collected, with an introduction, the major
critical works--Primitivism and Decadence, Maule's Curse, and The
Anatomy of Nonsense--of the period in which he worked out his
famous and influential critical position. The works together show
an integrated position which illuminates the force and importance
of the individual essays. With "The Function of Criticism," a
subsequent collection, "In Defense of Reason" provides an
incomparable body of critical writing.
The noted critic bases his analysis upon a belief in the existence
of absolute truths and values, in the ethical judgment of
literature, and in an insistence that it is the duty of the
writer--as it is of very man--to approximate these truths insofar
as human fallibility permits. His argument is by theory, but also
by definite example--the technique of the "whole critic" who
effectively combines close study of specific literary works and a
penetrating investigation of aesthetic philosophies.
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