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American Literary Studies
Yvor Winters Papers
The Papers
Stanford has a number of special collections that contain original manuscripts,
correspondence, and other archival materials related to Yvor Winters,
including two notable ones in conjunction with his wife, Janet Lewis.
Finding Guides: Details are listed below with the specific collections.
Location: Department of Special Collections, Green Library
Research Access and Use: Materials in the Department of Special
Collections are non-circulating and must be used in the Special Collections'
Reading Room in the Cecil H. Green Library. The Reading Room is open
10:00am to 5:00pm Monday through Friday. Photocopies, photographs, and
microfilm can be made of some materials in the collections. For more
information about the collections and access policies, please contact
Special Collections by telephone at (650) 725-1022, by electronic mail
at speccollref@stanford.edu or by regular mail at the Department of Special
Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6004.
Career of Yvor Winters (1900-1968):
Poet, literary critic, and editor, Winters was born in Chicago on October
17, 1900. He was married to author Janet Lewis in 1926, with whom he founded
Gyroscope (1929-1931), an influential literary journal that served
as center for a group led by Winters. Winters was also an editor of Hound
& Horn from 1932 to 1934. A renowned poet, Winters gathered three
decades' of individual volumes of verse into his Collected Poems
(1952), which in its enlarged 1960 version was awarded the Bollingen Prize
for Poetry. Winters was also a major and controversial literary critic,
who famously attacked the Romantic strains in American literature in several
books collected under the title, In Defense of Reason (1947).
Yvor Winters Papers, 1943-1968.
Size: .25 linear feet
Call Number: Univ Archives SC 119
Contents: Includes letters, memoranda and newsclippings retained
in the English Department's faculty file on Winters. Items pertain to
his relations with colleagues in the department, his work, and research
plans.
Yvor Winters and Janet Lewis Papers, 1920-1970.
Size: 2.5 linear ft.
Call Number: Special Collections M0360
Content: Correspondence and literary manuscripts collected by Peter
Howard of Serendipity Books over a period of several years. The focus
is primarily on Yvor Winters and his wife Janet Lewis; however there are
also materials by and about other writers who have had an association
with Winters.
Yvor Winters and Janet Lewis Papers, 1906-1982.
Size: 8.5 linear ft. and 1 oversize box.
Call Number: M0352
Finding Guide: A printed version is available in the reading room
of the Department of Special Collections. Electronic versions of this
finding guide are also available. If you have Microsoft's Internet Explorer
version 6.0 or higher, click here to connect to the XML version on the
Stanford server; if not, click here for the html version on the Online
Archives of California server.
Content: The papers, covering 1906-1982, are divided into three
major series: Winters' papers, Lewis' papers, and related materials. Winters'
papers, which are subdivided according to genre, consist of personal correspondence
(primarily in-coming), professional correspondence with colleagues and
publishers, articles and essays, critical texts, poetry, fiction, photographs,
and miscellany. The personal correspondence files include letters conveying
opinions on the work of fellow writers or letters seeking Winters' criticism
of their works. The Janet Lewis Papers, also subdivided according to genre,
include her personal and professional correspondence, articles, essays,
lectures, novels, librettos, poems, and miscellany. The third series of
the papers consists of related materials such as: works by friends and
former students of Lewis and Winters, musical scores by William Bergsma
and Malcolm Seagrave, interviews of Lewis, and miscellany.
Bibliography of Yvor Winters
- Lohf, Kenneth A. Yvor Winters, A Bibliography (Denver: A. Swallow,
1959)
- Powell, Grosvenor. Yvor Winters: An Annotated Bibliography, 1919-1982
(Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1983)
Selected Biography and Criticism on Yvor Winters
- Carnochan, Brigitte Hoy. The Strength of Art (Stanford: Stanford
University Libraries, 1984)
- Comito, Terry. In Defense of Winters (Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 1986)
- Davis, Dick. Wisdom and Wilderness: The Achievement of Yvor Winters
(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983)
- Isaacs, Elizabeth. An Introduction to the Poetry of Yvor Winters
(Chicago: Swallow Press,1981)
- McKean, Keith F. The Moral Measure of Literature (Denver: A.
Swallow, 1961)
- Parkinson, Thomas Francis. Hart Crane and Yvor Winters (Berkeley:
University of California Press, c1978)
- Powell, Grosvenor. Language as Being in the Poetry of Yvor Winters
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press,1980)
- Sexton, Richard J. The Complex of Yvor Winters' Criticism (The
Hague, Mouton, 1973)
Related Manuscript Collections at Stanford:
- Burrows, Diane Axelrad. Notebooks for Courses with Yvor Winters,1947-1948.
Spec Coll - University Archives SCM 012
- Edmunds, John. Papers, 1947-1986. Spec Coll
- Lewis, Janet (1899- ) Papers, 1964-1989.
Spec Coll M0543
- Lesemann, Maurice (1899-1981). Papers, 1918-1986 Spec Coll M0375
- Olsen, Tillie (1912- ) Papers, 1930-1990.
Spec Coll M0667
- Ramsey, Henry (1900-1968). Papers, 1929-1984. Spec Coll
- Stafford, Clayton. Papers, 1929-1985. Spec Coll M0434
- Stanford, Donald (1913- ) Papers, 1933-1985. Spec Coll M0466
Last modified:
July 5, 2006
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