{"product_id":"the-force-of-poetry-christopher-ricks-9780198183266","title":"The Force of Poetry","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher Ricks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198183267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198183266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Clarendon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 462\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.77h x 5.12w x 0.99d","brand":"Christopher Ricks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946285629695,"sku":"9780198183266","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0b7ec830-db20-4139-8311-97706aaab632.jpg?v=1681512361","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-force-of-poetry-christopher-ricks-9780198183266","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}