The Force of Poetry - Brossura

Ricks, Christopher

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ISBN 10: 0198183267 ISBN 13: 9780198183266

Casa editrice: Clarendon Press, 1995

Riassunto

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 indepenently over many years, each of the essays in this collection of his writings asks how a poets 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.

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Recensione:

Christopher Ricks is our most distinctive critic...the natural heir to Empson, exciting and fertile. (Blake Morrison, Observer)

The richness and variety of these essays is truly remarkable (John Bayley, Listener)

L'autore:

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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• Editore: Clarendon Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0198183267
• ISBN 13: 9780198183266
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 462