The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse
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The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse by Christopher Ricks
A great age of poetry speaks for itself in Christopher Ricks's celebrated anthology: the variety and power of Victorian verse, the innovation and creativity with which poets resisted the bad propensities of the era through which they lived. The great figures are of course strongly represented - Tennyson and Browning, Swinburne and Hopkins - but not so as to crowd out the less expected but equally rewarding facets of light verse and nonsense, of grotesque and protest. At long last justice is done to the poignant directness of 'the true voice of feeling', from William Barnes and John Clare, through Emily Jane Bronte and Christina G. Rossetti, to Thomas Hardy.
Christopher Rick's anthology succeeds triumphantly* The Observer *
(Christopher Ricks) has done for Victorian poetry what Sir John Betjeman did for Victorian architecture. He has made it live again. * The Times *
A formidable volume. * Irish Times *
A masterly survey of a gigantic age, this anthology is indispensable. * Oxford Times *
(Christopher Ricks) has done for Victorian poetry what Sir John Betjeman did for Victorian architecture. He has made it live again. * The Times *
A formidable volume. * Irish Times *
A masterly survey of a gigantic age, this anthology is indispensable. * Oxford Times *
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 | 9780199556311 |
| ISBN 10 | 0199556318 |
| Title | The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse |
| Author | Christopher Ricks |
| Series | Oxford Books Of Prose And Verse Ser |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2008-11-13 |
| Number of pages | 688 |
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