{"product_id":"along-heroic-lines-christopher-ricks-9780192894656","title":"Along Heroic Lines","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA selection of new and revised essays from eminent scholar and critic Professor Christopher Ricks.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChristopher Ricks brings together new as well as substantially augmented critical essays across a wide range. Several derive from his term as the Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, when his inaugural lecture engaged with the illuminatingly puzzled relations between poetry and prose. Comparison and analysis (the tools of the critic, as T.S. Eliot insisted) are enlivened by imaginative pairings: of Samuel Johnson with Samuel Beckett, of Norman Mailer with Dickens, of Shakespeare with George Herbert, or of secret-police surveillance in Ben Jonson's Rome with that of Carmen Bugan's Romania. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eAlong Heroic Lines\u003c\/em\u003e devotes itself to the heroic and to 'heroics' (Othello cross-examined by T.S. Eliot; Byron and role-playing; Ion Bugan, political protest and arrest). This knot is in tension with the English heroic line (Dryden's heroic triplets, Henry James's cadences, Geoffrey Hill's concluding book of prose-poems and how they choose to conclude). All alert to the balance and sustenance of alternate tones that prose and poetry can achieve in harmony.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Ricks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 019289465X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192894656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.30w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2022","brand":"Christopher Ricks","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44043190468863,"sku":"9780192894656","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4e4def19-3793-44f6-b757-ed6a0791e955.jpg?v=1684965751","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/along-heroic-lines-christopher-ricks-9780192894656","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}