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As critic and teacher, Yvor Winters was one of the most controversial and influential figures of his time. He criticized the likes of Eliot and Henry James, and was called by the chair of his English department a disgrace, and taught such major poets as Robert Pinsky and Philip Levine. As a poet, he created a moving body of work featuring natural and personal subjects and dramatic formal experiments. The American Poets Project presents the largest collection of his work ever published. Selected by celebrated poet Thom Gunn, a friend and former student of Winters, this volume begins with early free verse and culminates in late meditative neoclassical masterpieces.

The best poems in THE REST OF LOVE are, appropriately enough, love poems. As a suitor, Phillips doesn't really do sweet and earnest; instead, he's more likely to give us the swirling, hot-and-cold drama of love at its most fraught....Phillips proves that the great English verse tradition of erotic religious poetry is alive and well, and apparently teaching creative writing in St. Louis.

Whitman's poetry, with its energetic style, looseness of form, and breadth of subject matter, revolutionized American writing. His declared intention was to create poetry that was distinctively American, to give something to our literature that will be our own...--a democratic vision that encompassed and celebrated all races and classes. Whitman's technique often involved making lists of the wonders and varieties of the human experience: contraltos, carpenters, duck-shooters, lunatics, machinists, immigrants, reformers, squaws, deckhands, millgirls, opium eaters, the President, fishermen, patriarchs, old folks--all these categories of people, plus hundreds more, appear in his work. He referred to himself in a poem as Walt Whitman, an American.../Disorderly, fleshly and sensual, and he prophesied his own popularity when he wrote, Missing me in one place search another,/I stop somewhere waiting for you.

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