The Force of Poetry by Ricks, Christopher
The Force of Poetry by Ricks, Christopher

The Force of Poetry

Christopher Ricks is one of the best-known living critics of English, and was described by W. H....
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Author: Christopher Ricks
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Language: English
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The Force of Poetry by Ricks, Christopher

The Force of Poetry

$250.00
The Force of Poetry by Ricks, Christopher

The Force of Poetry

$250.00
Author: Christopher Ricks
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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 clichés, lies, misquotations, and American English.


Author: Christopher Ricks
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 03/23/1995
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 7.77h x 5.12w x 0.99d
ISBN: 9780198183266

About the Author

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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