The Force of Poetry
The Force of Poetry
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The Force of Poetry by Christopher Ricks
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 s, lies, misquotations, and American English.Professor Christopher Ricks is Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University and co-director of the Editorial Institute. He has taught at Boston University since 1986; he was formerly King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge. He is the general editor of two series, Penguin English Poets and Poets in Translation, and the co-editor of Essays in Criticism. In 2002 he will deliver the Panizzi Lectures in Bibliography at the British Library.
Ricks's books include:
(ed.) The Oxford Book of English Verse (OUP 1999)
Essays in Appreciation (OUP 1996)
(ed.) Inventions of the March Hare: Poems 1909-1917 by T. S. Eliot (Fabers 1996)
Beckett's Dying Words: The Clarendon Lectures, 1990 (OUP 1993)
(ed.) Longman annotated poets: Tennyson (Longman 1989)
T.S. Eliot and Prejudice (Fabers 1988)
(ed.) The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1987),
The Force of Poetry (OUP 1984)
Keats and Embarrassment (OUP 1974)
English Drama to 1710 (OUP 1971)#
Milton's Grand Style (OUP 1963)
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| ISBN 13 | 9780192820464 |
| ISBN 10 | 019282046X |
| Title | The Force of Poetry |
| Author | Christopher Ricks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1987-05-21 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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