The Force of Poetry by Ricks, Christopher

The Force of Poetry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780198183266)

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The Force of Poetry by Ricks, Christopher

The Force of Poetry

$65.00
The Force of Poetry by Ricks, Christopher

The Force of Poetry

$65.00
Format: Paperback
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Christopher Ricks is one of the best-known living critics of English, and was described by W. H. Auden as "the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding." Though published independently over many years, each of the essays in this collection asks how a poet's words reveal the "force of poetry," that force--in Dr Johnson's words--"which calls new power into being, which embodies sentiment, and animates matter." The poets covered range from John Gower, Marvell, and Milton to Wordsworth, Empson, Stevie Smith, Lowell, and Larkin, and the book contains four wider essays on clich駸, lies, misquotations, and American English.

Author: Christopher Ricks
ISBN-10: 0198183267
ISBN-13: 9780198183266
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 03/23/1995
Pages: 462
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 7.77h x 5.12w x 0.99d
By Christopher Ricks
By Christopher Ricks
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Christopher Ricks is one of the best-known living critics of English, and was described by W. H. Auden as `the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding'. He is author of Beckett's Dying Words (OUP, 1993), Keats and Embarrassment (OUP, 1974), and editor of The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (Oxford, 1987).

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