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Night of Battle
Europe: 1944
as regarded from a great distance
Yvor Winters, “Night of Battle” from The Collected Poems of Yvor Winters. Used by permission of Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio.
Source: Poetry (December 1946).
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Biography
Allen Tate once commented on Yvor Winters the poet thus: "If he has been neglected—when he has not been ignored—the reasons are not hard to find. He has conducted a poetic revolution all his own that owes little or nothing to the earlier revolution of Pound and Eliot, and that goes back to certain great, likewise neglected Tudor poets for metrical and stylistic models." Winters commented to Contemporary Authors: "Tate is wrong . . .
Poems by Yvor Winters
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SUBJECT War & Conflict, Social Commentaries
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