The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse by Christopher Ricks

The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse by Christopher Ricks

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This reassessment of the Victorians and their poetry demonstrates what a great variety of poetry and poets the period produced, from nonsense verse to nature poetry, and from Tennyson to Oscar Wilde.

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The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse by Christopher Ricks

This reassessment of the Victorians and their poetry demonstrates what a great variety of poetry and poets the period produced, from nonsense verse to nature poetry, and from Tennyson to Oscar Wilde.

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 9780192141545
ISBN 10 0192141546
Title The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse
Author Christopher Ricks
Series Oxford Books Of Verse Ser
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Year published 1987-06-01
Number of pages 698
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.