In Defense of Reason.
In one poem he speaks of "Persimmon, walnut, loquat, fig, and grape" before claiming "The mind's immortal, but the man is dead." Besides "Time and the Garden" he speaks of "a mist fine as spray/ Ready to shatter into spining light" in "On a View of Pasadena from the Hills."  He claims "Treading change with savage heel/ We must live or die by steel" in the title poem of a collection also containing "To my Infant Daughter," Before Disaster. His revial of the reputations of Frederick Goddard Tuckerman and Charles Churchill as well as his advocacy of a Post-Symbolist style of poetry were based on his dictum that a poem is a rational statement and judgment about human experience.   For 10 points, name this former Stanford professor and mentor to Edgar Bowers and J.V Cunningham, the author of Forms of Discovery and In Defense of Reason.
In one poem he speaks of "Persimmon, walnut, loquat, fig, and grape" before claiming "The mind's immortal, but the man is dead."
{Arthur Yvor Winters}