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Arthur Yvor Winters (17 October 1900 – 25 January 1968) was an American poet and literary critic. ==Life== Winters was born in Chicago, Illinois and he grew up in Eagle Rock, California. He attended the University of Chicago where he was a member of a literary circle that included Glenway Wescott, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and his future wife Janet Lewis. He suffered from tuberculosis in his late teens and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. There he recuperated, wrote his early published verse and taught. In 1923 Winters published one of his first critical essays, "Notes on the Mechanics of the Poetic Image," 〔Introductory Note to ''Primitivism and Decadence: A Study of American Experimental Poetry'' Arrow Editions , New York , 1937〕 in the expatriate literary journal ''Secession''. In 1925 he became an undergraduate at the University of Colorado. In 1926, Winters married the poet and novelist Janet Lewis, also from Chicago and a tuberculosis sufferer. After graduating he taught at the University of Idaho and then started a doctorate at Stanford University. He remained at Stanford, living in Los Altos,〔Los Altos History Museum. (The Shoup Centennial 1910–2010 ). Los Altos History Museum, 2010. Accessed 2011-10-09.〕 until two years before his death from throat cancer. His students included the poets Edgar Bowers, Thom Gunn, Donald Hall, Jim McMichael, N. Scott Momaday, Robert Pinsky, John Matthias, Moore Moran, Roger Dickinson-Brown and Robert Hass, the critic Gerald Graff, and the theater director and writer Herbert Blau. He was also a mentor to Donald Justice, J.V. Cunningham and Bunichi Kagawa.〔 He edited the literary magazine ''Gyroscope'' with his wife from 1929 to 1931; and ''Hound & Horn'' from 1932 to 1934. He was awarded the 1961 Bollingen Prize for Poetry for his ''Collected Poems''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yvor Winters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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