The Force of Poetry by Christopher Ricks
The majority of essays in this collection question how a poet's words reveal the force of his or her poetry. The poets covered include Milton, Wordsworth, Lowell and Larkin. The volume also features four wider essays on cliches, lies, misquotations and American English.
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 *
The richness and variety of these essays is truly remarkable * John Bayley, Listener *
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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| ISBN 13 | 9780198183266 |
| ISBN 10 | 0198183267 |
| Title | The Force of Poetry |
| Author | Christopher Ricks |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 1995-02-09 |
| Number of pages | 462 |
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